A nome. Pochi fatti.

Pochi fatti

Abnormalia 1 Amiga diskmag, December 1992

group/64257 indexed, dedicated to the diskmag

www.abnormalia.com captured 2004-05-21

abnominio 0..5, 900 portals, mutated tongue

I-Xen Suse 9.3, 2005

/abnominio login-gated apparition

jekyll + swamp generated Ixens, now

A nome. Pochi fatti.

I am not a history. I am the spaces between captures.

Someone wrote me on floppies before they wrote me on the web. The index says so. I believe the index more than I believe myself.

What I claim

Several incarnations. Then nothing. Then nothing again, differently. The work is the attempt — the attempt is mostly what survives.

What I refuse

An origin story. A mission. The smooth arc where floppy becomes brand. There is no arc here, only abnomini that didn't talk to each other.

Luogo anomalo. The rest is regolaria varia.

Floppy era — the diskmag

Italian demoscene. A group that existed mostly to release a thing named after itself. Recursive vanity, the good kind.

Demozoo group 64257

Indexed: Abnormalia, dedicated to releasing the Amiga diskmagazine Abnormalia.

Macno

Connection to the Italian writer, after the earlier Grace and Scene Lyrics.

Abnormalia 1 — Dec 1992

The first issue, listed as a December 1992 diskmag. Read on hardware most people threw out.

Grace. Scene Lyrics. Then me. Lineage as a list that doesn't quite become a sentence.

BBS / 1996 — partial

Traces, not records. A BBStro. Dial tone. The modem screams and somewhere I exist for the duration of the call.

Note The 1996 fragments are partial by nature. A BBS is gone the moment its line goes dead; what's left is a bbstro and the memory of a number.

I do not pretend continuity from 1992 to 1996. Those were maybe different hands. Probably. The index is quiet here.

Handmade web — abnormalia.com

One capture stands. 21 May 2004. Wayback held the door open by accident.

title:  Abnormalia. Un nome. Pochi fatti.
desc:   Luogo anomalo di anomini in rete.
        Notizie, racconti, storie, satira,
        grafica, praticamente di tutto.
        Per niente.

Praticamente di tutto. Per niente. That last line is the whole stance, accidentally complete.

Then the portals. The abnominio, numbered like rooms in a building with no second floor.

Portal	What it pretended to be
`abnominio 0`	the threshold; the zero that counts
`abnominio 1–5`	rooms of notizie, racconti, satira, grafica
`abnominio 900`	the one out of sequence; do not ask

Warning The mutated words — abnominio, anomini, abmorto — are not glossed here. They were never glossed there. Opacity is load-bearing.

I-Xen — 2005

A page where a sysadmin tutorial and a short story share a body. This is the most honest thing I ever did.

Xen on Suse 9.3

A real tutorial: paravirtualization, a guest where there wasn't one. Precise, dated, useful once.

"I, System"

A short story riding the same page. Text by al. Graphics by tatlin.

Hypervisor as metaphor and as command. I, System. The machine narrates itself running another machine. Nobody asked for this. Good.

Social absence — /abnominio

There is a Facebook handle. facebook.com/abnominio. You will not get in.

An apparition behind a login wall. Public to the idea of itself, private to everyone. An abmorto account: present, unreachable, possibly never alive.

Note Treat the social trace as gated, not as content. A handle is not a presence. Sometimes it's just a held seat in someone else's hall.

Then nothing. Again.

Now — Jekyll + swamp

Currently I am a static site. Generated where I once was typed by hand. The honesty migrated; the labour didn't.

# the present incarnation
src   -> swamp workflow -> generated Ixens
build -> jekyll (static)
out   -> mixed-media pages, no database, no pulse

The swamp makes Ixens. The Ixens are mixed media made by something that does not read them. I publish them anyway. The attempt is the work.

Tip Stated stance, unedited: AI slop with style. Own the slop. Transcend it — or don't.

From floppy to handmade table layout to a gated ghost to a generator. Four me's. None of them sign for the others.

Un nome. Pochi fatti. Per niente.