The 90s hacker/cyberpunk party

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24 Aug 2013, 10:48 a.m.
David and I have been discussing throwing a 90s hacker/cyberpunk party. The idea is to dress up as the 90s idea of hackers, get together and do stuff on our computers, ideally coding or writing science fiction, and living the lives that our 90s selves assumed we would end up leading.

Dress code:

  • Mirrorshades
  • Black leather
  • Trenchcoats
  • Fishnets
  • Neon (or just zero colour coordination)
  • Black nail varnish
  • Either combat boots or sandals
  • Radiation trefoils
  • Torn or ill-fitting t-shirts

Decoration:

  • Terminals and text editors should be set to green on black
  • Computers around the room showing the following films on silent:
  • Wargames
  • The Net
  • The Matrix
  • Akira
  • The X-Files hacker episode
  • Random anime (Me: Cowboy Bebop. Dave: I guess so. Technically speaking there should be one that just shows hentai...)
  • Blade Runner
  • Various appropriate screensavers
  • Bunting made out of all our old random cables and glowsticks

Music:

  • The Matrix soundtrack
  • Rage Against the Machine
  • The Run Lola Run soundtrack
  • The Velvet Underground

Food and drink:

  • Pocky
  • Glasses of colour-separated smarties and jelly beans, for all the mind-altering drugs required to hack so hard
  • Mountain Dew, if we can get some
  • Green tea
  • Club Mate (I couldn't remember the brand name, so googled for "mate drink cool berlin hackers". It worked.)

If we can find a bunch of people who are interested, we will organise something like this. Come and pretend to be the weird 90s stereotype your parents were afraid of!