"The Bells of Yule" infofile, Dec 17, 2014

[reluctance]

This one was initially released in December of 1994, then became lost and unobtainable circa 1998. It's back in circulation now, re-mastered, and hopefully remains that way this time around. For the first time I enjoyed the strange privilege of the bandwidth cap of my ad hoc web hosting being exceeded to due too much interest -- it crapped out

Comments

[glowing_fish]

I have to admit that after reading this entire thing, I am not quite sure what is going on.
Which actually is a good result, because it so much brings back the early days of the internet: viewing blocks of texts that were a combination of slang, technical terms, and references to mist-shrouded parts of the deep internet (and it was all deep internet!) that had a long and inexplicably history.

I miss not understanding things on the internet.

[reluctance]

Here I thought I was going overboard and providing too much grounding context! More likely, I provided just enough rope for an interested party to hang themselves.

I would be happy to clarify any points of confusion, but you may prefer to be only partially illuminated. Undoubtedly it was assumed that any prospective audience for this music disk (which you can enjoy at http://pixelwitches.com/MISTYULE.ZIP ) would have been someone who was part of the milieu back in '94 and kept all this jargon in the bottom back drawer of their mental filing cabinet.

[glowing_fish]

I don't want to the confusion clarified, reading documents that I can't make sense of (even though I know the words) gives me the feeling of hearing the adult conversation from the children's table at Thanksgiving, full of words I know but a conversation I can't keep track of. A feeling of disorientation that is welcome in an era when I can have the entire world explained to me with a few moments of searching the internet.