Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself.

Although the United States has a long history of white people “playing Indian,” as the scholar Philip J. Deloria calls it in his book of the same name, the 1990s saw the beginning of what would eventually be significant pushback by Native Americans against so-called Pretendians or Pretend Indians, including the successful passage of a national law prohibiting non-Native people from marketing their art as 'Indian.'

This was the philosophical company Gerard kept, and it is surprising to find in him so much of the Humeian analyst as we do alongside the inevitable concessions to “common sense.”

...when a writing test at a radio station turned into the casting-couch routine. She was typing a piece of copy when she realized the station manager had locked the door and was caressing her shoulders.