EPISODE · Oct 31, 2023 · 28 MIN
Ancient Technopagans
from Magic in the United States · host Magic in the United States
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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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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