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How did those two words get mushed together for this, anyway? Nobody talks about the hackingscene, or javascene, or gamescene, or magicscene (the trading card

How did those two words get mushed together for this, anyway? Nobody talks about the hackingscene, or javascene, or gamescene, or magicscene (the trading card game), or baseballscene, or anything else like that.

datameta 3y ago
Maybe because demo ends with a vowel and it would be hard to come up with a smooth transition to a second word?
thibaut_barrere 3y ago
I don't have a definite answer. It might be a mixture of analogies to other creative "scenes" (music / cinema), it might have been improved by the fact most competitions were later projected on large screens etc!
ben0x539 3y ago
Might be my bias showing, but I just assumed that demo scene stuff mainly developed in Europe, and at least in German, referring to a hackingscene[1], or javascene[2], or gamescene[3], or magicscene[4] wouldn't feel out of place at all either. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22hackerszene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22hackerszene%22 [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22java-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22java-szene%22 [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22game-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22game-szene%22 but https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gaming-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gaming-szene%22 probably hits better [4] ok this one is a bit of a miss but still https://www.google.com/search?q=%22magic-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22magic-szene%22
GuB-42 3y ago
It came from the warez or cracking scene, often just called "the scene" [1]. I don't know where the name came from, but the demoscene is definitely a (legal) spinoff of the (illegal) warez scene. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene > Demos in the demoscene sense began as software crackers' "signatures", that is, crack screens and crack intros attached to software whose copy protection was removed. You may notice that many demoscene groups have the same name as warez groups, this is not a coincidence as they were originally the same people. All part of "the scene". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene

datameta 3y ago

Maybe because demo ends with a vowel and it would be hard to come up with a smooth transition to a second word?

thibaut_barrere 3y ago

I don't have a definite answer. It might be a mixture of analogies to other creative "scenes" (music / cinema), it might have been improved by the fact most competitions were later projected on large screens etc!

ben0x539 3y ago

Might be my bias showing, but I just assumed that demo scene stuff mainly developed in Europe, and at least in German, referring to a hackingscene[1], or javascene[2], or gamescene[3], or magicscene[4] wouldn't feel out of place at all either. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22hackerszene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22hackerszene%22 [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22java-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22java-szene%22 [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22game-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22game-szene%22 but https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gaming-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22gaming-szene%22 probably hits better [4] ok this one is a bit of a miss but still https://www.google.com/search?q=%22magic-szene%22 https://www.google.com/search?q=%22magic-szene%22

GuB-42 3y ago

It came from the warez or cracking scene, often just called "the scene" [1]. I don't know where the name came from, but the demoscene is definitely a (legal) spinoff of the (illegal) warez scene. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene > Demos in the demoscene sense began as software crackers' "signatures", that is, crack screens and crack intros attached to software whose copy protection was removed. You may notice that many demoscene groups have the same name as warez groups, this is not a coincidence as they were originally the same people. All part of "the scene". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene