{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "The Dream and Promise of Multimedia, Regained\u2026 \u2013 Midboss (Em) \u2013 Medium", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/174151704343/", "html": "<a href=\"https://medium.com/@midboss/the-dream-and-promise-of-multimedia-regained-e515e99b36ad\">The Dream and Promise of Multimedia, Regained\u2026 \u2013 Midboss (Em) \u2013 Medium</a>\n<p><a href=\"http://light-rook.tumblr.com/post/174149935823/the-dream-and-promise-of-multimedia-regained\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">light-rook</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http://obscuritory.tumblr.com/post/173486860997/the-dream-and-promise-of-multimedia-regained\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">obscuritory</a>:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Essential post by Emilie Reed about multimedia CD-ROMs and how they\u2019re related to modern messy indie game aesthetics.<br/></p>\n<blockquote><p>The multimedia CD-ROM is a kind of exuberant over-response to the \ncapability of digital devices to convey things that were previously \nexperienced through different forms, images, text, video, sound, \nall-in-one. Often, these CD-ROMs were more about the fact that such a thing could now be done than whether the thing itself was actually useful.\n\n<br/></p></blockquote>\n</blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m 100% here for messy terrines as a metaphor for \u201cmultimedia\u201d early internet culture.<br/></p>\n</blockquote>"}