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EPISODE · Oct 31, 2023 · 28 MIN

Ancient Technopagans

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It’s the late 1980s. With a computer, modem, and phone line, you can  log into PODSnet – the Pagan and Occult Distribution System network. It’s an early BBS, or Bulletin Board System, and for the first time, users could communicate with like-minded individuals all over the country within hours. This ancient digitech was asynchronous and expensive, but practitioners shared their spells and experimented with rituals on what was the ancestor of today’s social media

It’s the late 1980s. With a computer, modem, and phone line, you can  log into PODSnet – the Pagan and Occult Distribution System network. It’s an early BBS, or Bulletin Board System, and for the first time, users could communicate with like-minded individuals all over the country within hours. This ancient digitech was asynchronous and expensive, but practitioners shared their spells and experimented with rituals on what was the ancestor of today’s social media

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