Datalove emerged from a small international community
mainly Swedish and young at the time, called Telecomix
We were a little bunch, maybe ten or fifteen at the time
and we experimented with social usages of Internet
we experimented with modes of interaction and modes of communication
something very spontaneous
We were impressed because on their IRC channel, their chat channel
half were girls, which is quite rare in our hacker communities
which are in general very masculine
While talking about everything and nothing
emerged this notion of datalove
In a way it is a kind of a prolongation of what is love
in the digital realm
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It's not an ice cream with two scoops nor a kabbalistic symbol
Not a cooing pigeon nor a vertical camel
This heart in hieroglyph that suddenly waves to us
It's a furtive fluttering there's humanity in the machine!
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We highlight in the the depths an unknown glimmer
A rainbow of emotions full of unexpected joys
We spot in the network a strange audio signal
The synchronous palpitation of tiny horizontal hearts
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The question we asked ourselves during millions of years
And which answer is right there at once on Wikipedia
The passionate discussion on an IRC channel
Loaded with secret affections there's love on the Internet!
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Our digital existences beyond the megabytes
Have enjoyable properties, there is love in our data!
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For me, datalove is the emotions
that can be triggered through digital technologies
And I see this as a kind of projection of our humanities
through digital tools and Internet
Maybe that's simply what datalove is :
a link between the universal machine, the global network,
and the humans and the humanities at its ends...