I posted this video interview with Cath le Couteur a week ago on my #WordPress ActivityPub and it's not had any interest, so self-boosting…
She's especially fascinating because of this brief forgotten window in London in the 90s between CERN and Web 2.0 when the web's zeitgeist wasn't only female it was queer. First at the world's first web cafe - the women-run #Cyberia in Soho (https://www.vice.com/en/article/worlds-first-ever-cyber-cafe-cyberia-london/), then with Jess and Cath's #ShootingPeopole, which turned the ugly Mailman email digest into a slick, daily human-moderated early prototype of a social media feed. They launched a paid tier (when I started working for them) and NYC branch, peaked at 40k filmmaker/writer/animator/docmaker/crew/actor members - ran 27-years, Cath turned down all advances to sell the database, and shut it down last year, not from bankruptcy but wanting to move on.
I'm sure she'd be better known if she was a bloke or profit-hungry, still I really enjoyed the chat; a first for me to post the video of it.
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