Pioneers of the digital. The hackers and bulletin board systems scene of the 1980s

在20世纪70年代，微处理器的发展为计算机的使用创造了新的可能性，在此基础上，家用计算机首次显示出“计算机化”到私人领域的后果。受加州反主流文化的影响，它的发展与新的有前途的机会和个人发展的自由有关。与西德的另类环境有关，这导致了20世纪80年代初出现了黑客和邮箱操作员的青年场景。现场用家用电脑进行了实验，通过将电脑连接到电话网络，他们探索了新的通信可能性。通过这种方式，他们将自己的概念与政府计划的“进入信息社会的方式”相抵触，并与电信垄断发生冲突。通过“有远见地处理法律”（Wau Holland），他们忽视了这种垄断，直到电信部门的私有化最终结束了这种垄断。考虑到另类环境的衰落，该项目要求在1978年至1996年期间，这一场景的背景、轮廓、变化、效果和媒体感知。它研究了黑客和邮箱场景在计算机和通信技术动态发展中的影响，它在跨国文化转移中的作用，以及在20世纪80年代出现的一种新的、技术驱动的进步信念。它有助于更好地理解最近的过去，特别是互联网的文化史前史，以及20世纪70年代至90年代“信息社会”的发展。

Within the 1970s years, the development of the microprocessor created new possibilities in use for computers, on which the home computer first showed consequences of the "computerization" up to the private area.Influenced by the Californian Counterculture, its development was connected with new promising opportunities and freedom in the development for the individual.In connection with the Alternative Milieu of West Germany, this lead in the beginning of the 1980s to the emergence of a youth scene of hackers and mailbox operators. The scene experimented with the home computer, and by the connection of the computer to the telephone network, they explored new communication possibilities.This way they set their own concepts against the government-planed "way into the information society" and got into conflicts with the telecommunication monopoly. By "foresighted dealing with laws" (Wau Holland) they ignored this monopoly until it was finally ended by the privatization of the telecommunication sector.This project asks for the context, the outline, the changes, the effects and the media perception of this scene between 1978 and 1996, in consideration of the decline of the Alternative Milieu.It does research on the influence of the hacker and mailbox scene in the dynamic development of computer and communication technology, its role within a transnational culture transfer as well as of the emerge of a new, technology driven belief in progress through the 1980s.It makes a contribution to the better understanding of the recent past, particular to the cultural prehistory of the Internet and for the development of the "information society" from the 1970s until the 1990s.