Steven K. Roberts, N4RVE

The first digital nomad, now based in the San Juan Islands and digitizing ancient media with a mobile laboratory.

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@MaggieL @GingerLady6 @gingerlady Still at it! About to move Bionode into the new mobile lab.

[Steven K. Roberts, N4RVE @nomadness]

@MaggieL @ShamashAran @prosqtor @alexthechick Hi Maggie! Sorry about that unfortunate lazy name-reuse... confusing!

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Love this recent interview with @GabeMarusca about my digital nomad history...

https://t.co/rq059ftMJa

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@iamdavecook Hi Dave! It would be okay to choose something from my https://t.co/kIXiQhi44o site... Just in the middle of moving to my new mobile lab, so not near my computer to send specific ones at the moment. Thanks, I look forward to seeing what you do!

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Chapter 3 from the unpublished 1909 Great Loop voyage by Ralph M. Pearson... this one from Havana to Kampsville on the Illinois River.

https://t.co/9m5XYoE8HX

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Some fun YouTubery just happened... I did an interview in September with Matt of @JaYoeLife and it is delightful. There's BEHEMOTH footage from 1992, technomadic chat, and some retro-media geekery from the Harbor Digitizing lab.

https://t.co/myzWpMHHXb

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@N4UL I always find it amusing that "Truth" in Russian is Pravda, which was the name of the Soviet-era media voice.

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1994 - An attempt to create a community of #digitalnomads, written during the first year of the Microship project. This was posted to my Technomads listserve and generated considerable discussion.

https://t.co/qZ0MLoj9Ty

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Some additions to the archives yesterday: 1986 schematics and other details from the Winnebiko II bicycle control processor, handlebar chord keyboard, and Model 100.

https://t.co/2SX1KTxR5B

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@bradneuberg

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Nomadness docked in the Clarke Belt, slurpin' satellite feeds into the exabyte data store before heading over to Lagrange Point L1 to anchor for a while.

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@PaulDalgarno

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@PaulDalgarno I'd have to see their length and whether or not they involve a lot of splicing, as well as the type of recording... but I can't imagine even a worst case scenario being more than half of that figure. Probably much less. Let me know if we can help.

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@PaulDalgarno Yes much cheaper. I use a Otari MX 5050 at Harbor Digitizing... please feel free to DM me.

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Thank you so much everyone, I just hit 500 subscribers on @YouTube! #500subs https://t.co/p0ZNDw3DAm

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1979: From the standpoint of the user, little has changed. He is still connected to the utility pole through a meter, and still receives monthly billings. But now, the meter can run in either direction, alternately debiting and crediting his account.

https://t.co/gUAOEDfW2n

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I've always been fond of this article, written 29 years ago, anticipating the emergence of online-centered lifestyles... written when the Internet was gradually incorporating competing commercial services and eliminating artificial borders.

https://t.co/LUVjKbUZcs

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The world has just changed. It has been an odd sort of revolution: many don’t even realize it happened, while others have had their lives redefined so dramatically that the time Before Networking seems as primitive as the Dark Ages. (1994)

https://t.co/elY9VUSgfn

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When I started this post, I envisioned it as a dozen quick photo/captions; I didn’t expect an all-day voyage along a lifetime, threaded together by glimpses of 19-inch rackmount consoles and held together by 10-32 screws.

https://t.co/jJJVSYjqoB

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I just had a bit of local publicity here in the San Juan Islands this week. "It’s like using surgical tools to get at people’s memories, their emotional metadata"

https://t.co/Ey06fbXPUG