Episode 003: Community

Casey and Mark recall how they met and the online communities they have been a part of. Mark shares some of his earliest online community experiences and thinks about the nature of community tools. How do tools influence their community? What can we learn from the Teen Wolf fandom? Casey teaches Mark about Dark Social. Casey and Mark discuss the communities that are being built around Twitch.tv and how communities form around broadcasters and broadcasting tools. Casey talks about "effortlessly positive communities". Casey and Mark discuss the Twitch Plays Pokémon experiment.

Notes:

• Internet Relay Chat is for hackers.
• The original Tumblr API
• Casey and Mark talk about "doxxing" in Episode 2.
• "ZZT is an ANSI character-based video game".
• International Jetpack Conference
• Mark learned programming by writing AOL proggies, like AOHell.
• Webrings used to be a big deal.
• Websites used to give each other "awards", normally just a jpeg image of a plaque. Mark proudly displayed the logo of The HTML Writers Guild, despite not being a member.
• Quake mods on Wikipedia
• Projectionist and Anarchaia were early "tumblelogs".
• Teen Wolf on Tumblr
• The Archive Team
• Webstock '13: Jason Scott - Wanted: dead or alive
• The Geocities Archive
• Heaven's Gate (read more about them on Wikipedia)
• Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong by Alexis Madrigal
• Casey and Mark are both fascinated by Twitch.tv
• Starcraft II World Championship Series
• Mark watched nolife Kripparrian when playing Diablo III. ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ
• "It had to do with an eggplant..."
• In his youth, Mark listened to Pointless Audio's "Captain Immy" who grew up to be television's Kevin Pereira.
• Dennis "Thresh" Fong
• Casey admires how Day[9] has influenced his community.
• What the hell is Twitch Plays Pokemon?
• Twitch Plays Pokémon on Wikipedia