25 years ago, on 21 December 1995, the world's first
Netstrike (strike
in the network) took place.
A history of the
netstrike can be seen at:
http://www.tommasotozzi.it/index.php?title=Netstrike_(1995)
The
netstrike was a way to bring the logic of
the procession through the streets back to the telematic network
which, as happens when many people parade down the street at the
same time, causes traffic to be temporarily blocked. As for the
real strikes, the logic of the march is not an end in itself,
but moved by the reasons of a collective protest.
On December 21, 1995, the French government site was blocked for
a few hours due to the simultaneous connection to that site of
thousands of citizens of the world who were protesting against
the nuclear tests that this state was carrying out in Mururoa.
The ideation of this type of online protest and of the term
Netstrike
itself is the work of Tommaso Tozzi in the summer of
1995.
Later, with the help first of Stefano Sansavini and then of the
Strano Network group, the first world
netstrike
was organized on 21 December 1995.
In the summer of 1996 the
Strano Network group
published the following book which tells and documents the story
of the first three organized netstrikes:
Strano Network,
Net Strike, No copyright, Etc ..
Antagonistic practices in the telematic era, AAA edizioni,
Bertiolo (UD), 1996
Over time the
netstrike has spread as a practice
in the world (in some cases even with forms not shared by the
members of the group itself).
In 2000 the website
www.netstrike.it
was created. A version of that site (as it was on that date) is
stored at the following address:
https://web.archive.org/web/20001110083800/http://www.netstrike.it/
In 2001 the aforementioned site was seized:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011201005151/http://www.netstrike.it/
and today it is closed.