Community Memory is a live-printed publication which recounts the origins and history of the Community Memory project, the first publicly available social media system which operated initially with a printed “feed” out of a record shop in Berkeley, CA in the early ’70s. The publication is printed in 12 sections on a thermal receipt printer, during which viewers are invited to touch and read it as it prints. Custom type design is based on the original system’s ASCII dot matrix typography, which was generated by a Teleytype ASR-33.

Created as a part of Geoff Han’s WFH Resistance workshop. View a digital version of the publication here.