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ModCulture

April 20th, 2003 · No Comments

Just some quick thoughts on "Mod Culture". No, not fanatical worship of the beatles, but rather the hacking, cracking, improvinq, & personalizinq of consumer products. I had previously attributed this to PC culture. For example, take 2 identical PC’s, give them to 2 people, & re-examine them in 1 year. They’ll be totally different. Apps, fonts, desktop, & peripherals. If you wanted to go back further, you could say hot rodders, or even WWII bomber nose art.

For the present day, I think it came from BMX’ers. We used to make custom G.I.Joe’s, too.

Now, it shows itself (again) in bikes & skateboards, physical body mods, cars (both minature & full size), & cell phone rinqtones.

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