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<nettime> Happy 25th birthday NETSTRIKE !!!


Hello,

25 years ago, on 21 December 1995, the world's first Netstrike (strike in the network) took place.

A history of the netstrike can be seen at:

http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Netstrike_(1995)

The netstrike was a way to bring the logic of the procession through the streets back to the telematic network which, as happens when many people parade down the street at the same time, causes traffic to be temporarily blocked. As for the real strikes, the logic of the march is not an end in itself, but moved by the reasons of a collective protest.

On December 21, 1995, the French government site was blocked for a few hours due to the simultaneous connection to that site of thousands of citizens of the world who were protesting against the nuclear tests that this state was carrying out in Mururoa.

The ideation of this type of online protest and of the term Netstrike itself is the work of Tommaso Tozzi in the summer of 1995.

Later, with the help first of Stefano Sansavini and then of the Strano Network group, the first world netstrike was organized on 21 December 1995.

In the summer of 1996 the Strano Network group published the following book which tells and documents the story of the first three organized netstrikes:

Strano Network, Net Strike, No copyright, Etc .. Antagonistic practices in the telematic era, AAA edizioni, Bertiolo (UD), 1996

Over time the netstrike has spread as a practice in the world (in some cases even with forms not shared by the members of the group itself).

In 2000 the website www.netstrike.it was created. A version of that site (as it was on that date) is stored at the following address:

https://web.archive.org/web/20001110083800/http://www.netstrike.it/

In 2001 the aforementioned site was seized:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011201005151/http://www.netstrike.it/

and today it is closed.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY NETSTRIKE !!!

Tommaso Tozzi

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