Final post-Rave reflection: it's ridiculous to talk about "Rave culture", when
the best Rave experience (for me) that can happen is to be sufficiently
"influenced" to the point where people and interaction cease to matter/exist,
and the only thing left is a complete overdose of sonic and visual stimuli.
(The multi-watt argon and krypton lasers really helped here.) 

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Random Quotes

I have come across many cool quotes in my research for this project. I had the idea to incorporate these quotes in the website in someway so that they would be displayed randomly at the header of the site or somewhere. Right now I have the following qutoes:

"You like an artist, you see them on MTV, whatever. You get their CD. You listen to their CD. You memorize their CD. You go to their concert and you go 'yea that was great.' That is so boring!

-Brittany Summerset, DJ featured in Better Living Through Circuitry

In any case, the whole point of a rave is to be innovative, free, open and countercultural. With alcohol and an over-21 age restriction, how can ya be like that? All the over 21 pseudoraves I've ever been to have been a bunch of confused adults with a few people who were cool in their low or mid 20s and a bunch of kids with fake IDs having a good time.

=Jerry Dischler=|Little Fluffy Cloud|=disc@quads.uchicago.edu=

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Major points

The Internet allowed rave to spread by distributing information on upcoming raves:

Saturday, May 2
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(1) Psychosis

Happy Hours paranoic hosts
Bring you Psychosis
Partners in Crime - Savage House (Promoters of Shiva's - ed.)
Psychotic D-Jaze

On 4 turntables
Doc Martin & Matt C.
Ron D. Core
Mark Lewis
DJ Dan
Eli Star
The Kandyman

example1
example2
example3

The Internet allowed rave participants to discuss issues related to the rave scene including ideals, music, culture, drugs, fashion and more.

In any case, the whole point of a rave is to be innovative, free, open andcountercultural. With alcohol and an over-21 age restriction, how can ya be like that? All the over 21 pseudoraves I've ever been to have been a bunch of confused adults with a few people who were cool in their low or mid 20s and a bunch of kids with fake IDs having a good time.

example1
Raving and age
Raving in Spain
SF rave scene

The Internet allowed rave participants to connect online after meeting In Real Life(IRL) or to establish initial connections

My friend and I were in Portland this past weekend and met a kid named Jay. Karma fell for him and lost his number and is way bummed out. He said he use to rave in Seattle all the time....he was 5'7" I'd say.....thin....beautiful brown skin.......short dark hair.....bio-hazard tattoo on his head.....super nice.....professional paint baller.........any of you guys know this guy by far out coincidence? Worth a shot..... ;)

Looking for Jay?
looking for Rick M. of Portland, Oregon

The use of the Internet in connection with rave allowed rave to spread and reach people who otherwise might not have been able to learn about rave via word of mouth alone. It allowed for connections between participants of the rave culture that might have only lasted for the duration of one rave. It allowed for past rave acquaintances to reconnect.

Internet Communities and Rave website construction

I have begun building my website project. Mainly at this point I'm just learning CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS is becoming the de-facto standard for designing websites and I thought this would be a good project to learn it. It's soo much nicer than using straight HTML to design a website. I'm looking forward to making a great site. Here is the link: Internet Communities and Rave

Abstract - Raving Online

Raving Online

Since the early days of the existence of the Internet people have been using it to communicate with others who shared similar interests, often in very niche areas. The rave scene and the internet both progressively became popular in the early 90s. Raves were primarily attended by young people, people which were more likely to have access to the Internet via educational institutions like universities and colleges. Therefore it is particularly appropriate to look at how the internet facilitated communication between rave participants. I intend to create a website which will look at ways in which the internet can allow for people interested in a specific topic to communicate. It will explore the unique communication opportunities the internet provides for individuals with similar interests. There is much information about how the internet can facilitate communication between individuals interested in a specific subject even if that subject is not widely popular. With this information I will then look at how the rave participants used the internet to communicate and facilitate the growth of the rave scene. Examples from newsgroups, email list-servers and websites will be included in my website.

Bibliography

http://hyperreal.org/raves/ This site has tons of archives of rave scenes organized by region. It includes pictures, mailing list archives, news group posts and more.

Full newsgroup archives(http://groups.google.com) will also be a primary source. specifically the usenet group alt.rave. This archive is a treasure trove of information as it was the main internet stomping grounds of ravers in the early and mid 90s before web forums became popular.

Author Reynolds, Simon, 1963-
Title Generation ecstasy : into the world of techno and rave culture / Simon Reynolds
Publisher Boston : Little, Brown, c1998
Edition 1st ed

Rave America: New School Dancescapes
# Publisher: ECW Press (September 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1550223836
# ISBN-13: 978-1550223835


Rave Culture, an insider's overview
# Publisher: Smallfry Publishing (December 20, 1999)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0968572103
# ISBN-13: 978-0968572108

Project Idea

Originally my idea was to do a website on how the rave scene in America used the Internet to grow, to show how the Internet was used to spread awareness of the rave scene etc. The idea was to look at how participants in the rave scene used the Internet to communicate and promote future events, find friends from previous raves and the like. I still am interested in this but I think it might be too difficult because there isn't likely to be much information available on this subject. So my alternative idea is to do a website on the history of rave from the beginning up until the past few years. It will be a multimedia experience with audio samples, and maybe even video. I will probably use flash to some extent even though I usually don't like, I think it would be ideal for this type of project.