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	Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto a virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). An even slight overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also notably impractical was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.		Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto a virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). An even slight overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also notably impractical was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.

	Although largely functional by the late 1990's, the PA platform experienced ~~a gaussian~~ decline into disuse throughout the waning years of the millennium due to mismanagement and the reckless allocation of the vast majority of PAT's financial resources towards the development of the afore-mentioned 3-D users icons and an embeddable, but functionally unusable, video module.		Although largely functional by the late 1990's, the PA platform experienced an almost immediate decline into disuse throughout the waning years of the millennium due to mismanagement and the reckless allocation of the vast majority of PAT's financial resources towards the development of the afore-mentioned 3-D users icons and an embeddable, but functionally unusable, video module.

	[[File:PAHomescreen.jpg\|500px\|center\|]]		[[File:PAHomescreen.jpg\|500px\|center\|]]

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	A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of @Cafe and other early cyber cafes with [[T-1-carrier\|T-1 Line]] access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based [[No-wave\|No Wave]] music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.		A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of [[Phiber-optik\|@Cafe]] and other early cyber cafes with [[T-1-carrier\|T-1 Line]] access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based [[No-wave\|No Wave]] music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.

	Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto a virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). An even slight overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also notably impractical was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.		Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto a virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). An even slight overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also notably impractical was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.

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	A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of @Cafe and other early cyber cafes with T-1 Line access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based No Wave music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.		A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of @Cafe and other early cyber cafes with [[T-1-carrier\|T-1 Line]] access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based [[No-wave\|No Wave]] music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.

	Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto a virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). An even slight overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also notably impractical was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.		Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto a virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). An even slight overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also notably impractical was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.

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	Although largely functional by the late 1990's, the PA platform experienced a gaussian decline into disuse throughout the waning years of the millennium due to mismanagement and the reckless allocation of the vast majority of PAT's financial resources towards the development of the afore-mentioned 3-D users icons and an embeddable, but functionally unusable, video module.		Although largely functional by the late 1990's, the PA platform experienced a gaussian decline into disuse throughout the waning years of the millennium due to mismanagement and the reckless allocation of the vast majority of PAT's financial resources towards the development of the afore-mentioned 3-D users icons and an embeddable, but functionally unusable, video module.

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	==Phantom Archives==		==Phantom Archives==
	~~[related: Ear Chasm]~~
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	A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of @Cafe and other early cyber cafes with T-1 Line access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based No Wave music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.		A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of @Cafe and other early cyber cafes with T-1 Line access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based No Wave music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.

	Within the program's virtual scrapbooking space, users could position an endless selection of six content modules, or "contmods". These contmods included four created by PAT and two created by outside vendors:		Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto a virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). An even slight overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also notably impractical was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.

	~~: '''PAT Contmods:'''~~

	* Image box (with optional dithering and rudimentary paintbrush capabilities)
	* Text box <ref> Caption fields for image and video entries were offered to users as a derivation of the text box contmod. </ref> (with hyperlynx)
	* Video player (can be used for audio with fixed image)
	* Timeline (a buggy feature still in beta mode when the platform was abandoned)

	~~: '''Outside Vendor Contmods:'''~~

	* Photo gallery (pop up feature for viewing a collection of related images, including captions)
	* [[error\|EarChasm]]™ (an audio player with fashionable assorted skins, user-uploaded artwork, pop-up lyric pane including hyperlynx, and various Easter eggs)

	Phantom Archive users were able to upload and arrange their content onto ~~this~~ virtual grid with a multitude of tools, including an optional "funky offset" (tilting the contmod approx 10 degrees in either direction) and "funky overlay" (having the corners of two contmods overlap). ~~Controlled by a right-pinned gray scrolling bar, the grid scrolled infinitely downward, though an~~ overabundance of content led to gargantuan loading ~~times, at~~ times best measured in hours rather than seconds. Also ~~notable (and~~ impractical) was the inclusion of over 1000 customizable and finely detailed 3-D-styled icons <ref> The icons featured cutting edge technology and 3-D design - creation of the icons alone was thought to have cost PAT over $500,000, contributing to a growing mountain of debt that would eventually squash any efforts to monetize the platform. </ref>.

	Although largely functional by the late 1990's, the PA platform experienced a gaussian decline into disuse throughout the waning years of the millennium due to mismanagement and the reckless allocation of the vast majority of PAT's financial resources towards the development of the afore-mentioned 3-D users icons and an embeddable, but functionally unusable, video module.		Although largely functional by the late 1990's, the PA platform experienced a gaussian decline into disuse throughout the waning years of the millennium due to mismanagement and the reckless allocation of the vast majority of PAT's financial resources towards the development of the afore-mentioned 3-D users icons and an embeddable, but functionally unusable, video module.

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	Within the program's virtual scrapbooking space, users could position an endless selection of six content modules, or "contmods". These contmods included four created by PAT and two created by outside vendors:		Within the program's virtual scrapbooking space, users could position an endless selection of six content modules, or "contmods". These contmods included four created by PAT and two created by outside vendors:


	: '''PAT Contmods:'''		: '''PAT Contmods:'''

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	Within the program's virtual scrapbooking space, users could position an endless selection of six content modules, or "contmods". These contmods included four created by PAT and two created by outside vendors:		Within the program's virtual scrapbooking space, users could position an endless selection of six content modules, or "contmods". These contmods included four created by PAT and two created by outside vendors:


	: '''PAT Contmods:'''		: '''PAT Contmods:'''

Lmsuarez at 13:21, 15 December 2024

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	~~'''~~Phantom Archives [related: Ear Chasm]~~'''~~		==Phantom Archives==
			[related: Ear Chasm]
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	A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of @Cafe and other early cyber cafes with T-1 Line access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based No Wave music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.		A digital archiving program launched by Phantom Access Technologies (PAT) in 1997. The platform was accessible through PAT's revolutionary and aggressively strange ISP [[mindvox\|MindVox]], reportedly conceptualized and implemented by [[lord-digital\|Lord Digital]] and [[phiber-optik\|Phiber Optik]] following the latter's release from prison in 1995. Phantom Archives (PA) was presented as a kind of digital scrapbooking tool with a highly customizable template, oriented largely around the experience of digitized audio and later video <ref> Although video embeds were a defining feature of the PA platform, snail-speed bandwidth's limited video streaming access almost exclusively to patrons of @Cafe and other early cyber cafes with T-1 Line access. </ref>. Upon its haphazard beta launch, Phantom Archives (PA) became central in the documentation and (relative) popularization of New York-based No Wave music, in part due to overlap between the hacking community and musicians exploring experimental R&B, free jazz, post-disco, and early hip-hop. Due to the archival nature of the PA interface, the identity of the user was essentially obscured and often overwritten by the entity being archived. Much of the material archived on PA was reportedly created many years prior, including some music and imagery dating from the late 1970's and early 1980's.