Stories in Digital Media (SIDM) was a blog run by a few students and the professor Frieder Nake, part of the former Digital Media programme in the state of Bremen, Germany. By the end of the first decade of the millennium, the web and digital technology were advancing at an unprecedented pace in the social and artistic sphere. Developments were exciting, and we kept a log of some events and took time to reflect.

What you see here is a rendition of the content as it was back then, in a different, static archival representation. Enjoy this glimpse into a hopeful and exciting past.

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Aurora: Odyssey in Space?

February 11, 2009 · Andre Hoffmann · Culture Rant

[caption id="attachment_290" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Leopard Wallpaper Aurora"] [/caption] [caption id="attachment_291" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey"] [/caption] What you see here is the well-known Apple Wallpaper Aurora, the standard background in Mac OS X Leopard. Yeah, it's the first one, not the second. The second is a movie still from 2001: A Space …