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Right... Maybe you are overstating things a bit here when you say that nobody was had the means for creative activity in Sweden before the arrival of the comput

Right... Maybe you are overstating things a bit here when you say that nobody was had the means for creative activity in Sweden before the arrival of the computer? Writing isn't very costly you know, neither is music, at least not compared to getting a computer in the 90's. Also, please define your time frame, 1991-1993 was not exactly a period of economic growth. The only part I think is relevant is the long tradition, even among school children, of forming associations. These provides the organisational mechanisms to form social groups large and persistent enough to support a scene for something as niche as computers. Because to have a demo scene you need both a supply of computers in the hands of people with no particular purpose for them, and that these people decide to do things together with them.

arexxbifs 7y ago
> you say that nobody was had the means for creative activity in Sweden before the arrival of the computer That's reading a bit much into my post, I think. My main point was that popular culture and youth entertainment wasn't as readily available as in, for example, the US, and that it was controlled by the government to a much higher extent. This might've been a factor in spurring creativity rather than inviting to pure passive consumption. Of course there were outlets for creativity before home computers. A computer, however, provided means to try your hand in pretty much everything: writing, music, graphics, animation, programming - and the ability to tie it all together and redistribute it cheaply in perfect digital copies.