The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities.

Today, sharing art on social media is like running on a treadmill forever. At least, that’s how illustrator Lois van Baarle describes it. “You have to post constantly,” Van Baarle, who got her start in the early aughts on DeviantArt, explained. “Otherwise, the algorithm decides you’re not interesting, and will not show your posts to your followers.”

Before big tech shepherded the vast number of online users onto a handful of sleek websites, there was a scrappier internet—where offbeat chat rooms and eccentric niche websites reigned, and carefully crafted “away statuses” were a kind of personal branding—back when you could be away from the internet. Until attention spans became a commodity, the internet was dreamed of as a “bastion for people to direct their own education,” as Charles Broskoski, co-founder of internet bookmarking site are.na, remembers.

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Three Generations of Xbox System-Link | MVG

Spanning 17 years you can play multiplayer games with any combination of Original Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One S or X, but utilizing System-Link – a form of multiplayer gaming that was introduced in 2001 with the Original Xbox and still supported in 2019 with the Xbox One.

In this episode MVG takes a look at the history of System-Link, How Three Generations of Xbox Consoles support it, and what makes it so awesome .

The ATOMIC Pi Android x86 Test $35 X86 SBC

In this video, ETA Prime tests out Android X86 on the all-new Atomic Pi Single Board Computer, He’s actually running Prime OS in this video but it’s just a mof=dified version on Android that runs on any x86 computer. He runs some benchmarks and test out some native android games like PUBG and Mincraft plus some N64 emulation. Let’s see how it performs.