The turn of the millennium pushed the demoscene to cover a lot of online ground, but now 20 years later modern Internet habits and centralization is putting undue pressure on the actively used websites, while other sites just wither out once the maintainers leave. The show discusses the reasons, the problems, the prospects, and possible solutions to this ongoing conundrum.

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Links in the episode:

• aSCIIaRENA: https://www.asciiarena.se/
• Bitfellas: http://bitfellas.org/
• Slengpung: http://slengpung.com/
• The Space Jam Website: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/
• ArtCity: http://artcity.bitfellas.org/
• SceneSat: https://scenesat.com/
• The Pouët codebase seminar (Revision 2014): https://youtu.be/DQ8eB_FORLo?t=1143
• Scene.org: https://www.scene.org/
• Demoparty.net: https://www.demoparty.net/
• SceneID: https://id.scene.org/
• Got Papers?: https://gotpapers.scene.org/
• Scenesat URL shortener: https://scenes.at/
• The passing of TMR / Cosine: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=12133

Episode credits:

• Hosts: Axel, Okkie & Ziphoid
• Produced by: Gargaj
• Editing, audio jingles, and engineering: Gloom
• Cover art: Critikill