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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  demoscene /dem'oh-seen/ [also `demo scene'] A culture of multimedia
     hackers located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe. Demoscene
     folklore recounts that when old-time {warez d00dz} cracked some piece of
     software they often added an advertisement in the beginning, usually
     containing colorful {display hack}s with greetings to other cracking
     groups. The demoscene was born among people who decided building these


     display hacks is more interesting than hacking - or anyway safer. Around
     1990 there began to be very serious police pressure on cracking groups,
     including raids with SWAT teams crashing into bedrooms to confiscate
     computers. Whether in response to this or for esthetic reasons, crackers
     of that period began to build self-contained display hacks of
     considerable elaboration and beauty (within the culture such a hack is
     called a {demo}). As more of these {demogroup}s emerged, they started to
     have {compo}s at copying parties (see {copyparty}), which later evolved
     to standalone events (see {demoparty}). The demoscene has retained some
     traits from the {warez d00dz}, including their style of handles and
     group names and some of their jargon.
  
     Traditionally demos were written in assembly language, with lots of
     smart tricks, self-modifying code, undocumented op-codes and the like.
     Some time around 1995, people started coding demos in C, and a couple of
     years after that, they also started using Java.
  
     Ten years on (in 1998-1999), the demoscene is changing as its original
     platforms (C64, Amiga, Spectrum, Atari ST, IBM PC under DOS) die out and
     activity shifts towards Windows, Linux, and the Internet. While deeply
     underground in the past, demoscene is trying to get into the mainstream
     as accepted art form, and one symptom of this is the commercialization
     of bigger demoparties. Older demosceners frown at this, but the majority
     think it's a good direction. Many demosceners end up working in the
     computer game industry.Demoscene resource pages are available at
     `http://www.oldskool.org/demos/explained/' and `http://www.scene.org/'.
  
  

















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