The Temple of the Screaming Electron is one of those information sources that, if it existed at all prior to the Internet, would have existed as some raggedy, stapled together publication with a cardboard cover, printed on newsprint. It would have published sporadically, distributing through the mail to an extremely select, small audience. The opportunity for advertising, and to gain new readers, would have been almost exclusively through word of mouth, and “friend of a friend” distribution.
In the age of the internet, however, all that changes. TOTSE is able to put together a proper “Temple” complete with slick graphics and an easy to use interface. Content that at one time would have been available to only a small number of hackers gets a much wider distribution.
In many ways, TOTSE represents everything the Internet does well. Its a special purpose destination, with fairly specific information sets available. On the other hand, the diversity of sections shows the guidance of a single eclectic vision. From hacking through erotica, from society through fringe, TOTSE represents the culmination of a single vision of what is valuable in the world of information.
In the past, if it existed at all, TOTSE would probably have had very limited exposure. In today’s Internet world however, there is room even for the single vision. When its done as professionally as TOTSE, with the unique, interesting, and eclectic selection of info, it shows off the Internet doing what it does best … pushing a single, unique vision of the world into a global audience.
Filed under: Computers, Elron Steele, Geeky stuff, Global Paradigms, View From The Edge, steeletech
It’s nice to read a positive article about TOTSE. Very, very smart people can be found discussing interesting topics. Even more entertaining are the ego-incited flame wars about nothing at all.
WHERE IS MY TOTSE?! It’s Tuesday, 7:11 AM here, and totse isn’t working.
If totse gets shut down… I don’t know what i’m going to do…
Pleas can u check if totse is online or not cu zi can’t acess it!
totse is a place where people can find info other than what has been thought of. like jokes and how to change a drive shaft
Ya I can’t get on totse either, it just times out. I started lasted night and now it 8pm the next day and its still down. why?????
Ya, same for me as of last night. I dunno if maybe they are just experiencing a high load … I think TOTSE going down has directed a lot of people here, lol … my hit count, especially on the post about TOTSE went up by 3-fold yesterday and today, lol. Nice to see all the new folks coming to see me here, but I hope TOTSE gets back up and running soon
AHHHHH!!
Totse is down and has been for two-ish days. I might commit suicide if it doesnt get back on .
Please, someone get totse back up!!!!
I thought my internet was just messed up. I hope it comes back up.
Me too … I wonder if its a load issue, or if they’ve lost their ISP access?
Just found a quick comment on Wikipedia related to the totse outage …
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hunter
On August 29th 2006 Totse went offline for an apparant upgrade and merger with the owners of goatse.cx. The new site promises to keep all options spread wide open.
Not sure if this means the domain name is changing too, but I expect they’ll keep Totse.com as the trademark
… anyway, nice to know it didn;t just dissapear … hopefully this will increase bandwidth and availability
Alright you guys. Just like last time Totse went down. Have fun.
http://www.freeboards.net/?mforum=totse
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http://www.freeboards.net/?mforum=totse
Temporary party forum.
hey anyone remember the url for that spam shelter site someone made?
http://totserevival.jconserv.net
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Wow, something positive about totse. Usually we get coined as 11-year-old arnarchists. It’s nice that someone knows that totse is about information, regardless of the assholes on it.
1E is right. usually Totse gets put down even though it is a great site for informational purposes. I
Totse is lost and gone forever