Episode 2 - Ancient Technopagans — Magic in the United States

It’s the late 1980s. With a computer, modem, and phone line, you hear the crackle of a modem as you log into PODSnet – the Pagan and Occult Distribution System network. It’s an early BBS, or Bulletin Board System, and for the first time, you can communicate with like-minded individuals all over the country within hours. This ancient digitech was asynchronous and expensive, but it was the ancestor of today’s social media.