Season 4
Season 4 of Cybercultural is publishing across 2025. Its theme is 'the birth of digital culture' and covers the dot-com period.
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Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood
Three Hollywood movies are released in 1995 with internet themes: the Keanu Reeves cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic (with an accompanying website), The Net with Sandra Bullock, and Hackers.
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GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
GeoCities, known throughout most of 1995 as Beverly Hills Internet, is one of the first commercial internet services to make it easy for people to publish a home page on the World Wide Web.
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Netscape in 1994: The Rise of the Webuloids
By the time Netscape Navigator is released in December 1994, the World Wide Web is beginning to overcome bandwidth restrictions and live up to its potential as a multimedia portal to the internet.
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Internet Underground Music Archive in 1994
By early 1994, the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) has migrated from Usenet and Gopher to the emerging internet platform, the World Wide Web. It is one of the first multimedia websites.
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CD-ROMS in 1994: Bowie, Prince, Gabriel, and Cybermania '94
David Bowie, Prince and Peter Gabriel all have interactive CD-ROMs out in 1994, and have plans for further multimedia projects. But by the end of the year, the CD-ROM format is effectively over.
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Multimedia Gulch in 1994: The Age of Interactive CD-ROMs
Multimedia Gulch is a trendy neighbourhood in San Francisco in the 1990s, home to wannabe rock stars making CD-ROM adventure games. They live fast in a time of slow modems.
