THE LIVING NETWORK
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Nitetime.net is a network of independently operated services, not
only a domain containing Web pages.

Its doors have included:

  nitetime.net          main Web and media hub
  live.nitetime.net     scheduled or continuous broadcast
  bbs.nitetime.net      community bulletin board
  chat.nitetime.net     Web access to chat
  irc.nitetime.net      native IRC service
  mud.nitetime.net      persistent Evennia text world
  gopher.nitetime.net   native Gopher archive

Around those services are original music, public-domain and archival
media, file distribution, FTP-style and Usenet/NNTP experiments,
Commodore programs, radio material, art, fiction, technical notes,
and recovered transmissions.

Availability changes as experiments enter and leave the workbench.
The Network directory records the clearest current doors:

  /network/


THE GARAGE YOU CAN ENTER
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The Evennia-powered MUD demonstrates how infrastructure and fiction
can become the same object.

A visitor can enter the Nitetime Garage late at night in Wisconsin.
Fluorescent lights hum above a scarred bench. An old receiver waits
near a beige computer with a green phosphor display. Cables,
microphones, adapters, tools, and coffee cups occupy the surfaces. A
corkboard carries weather, reports, and work orders. The lake is
outside; station equipment is below; Studio 608 is nearby.

The project is no longer merely describing a fictional facility. It
contains one that can be walked through.


CROSS-SERVICE STORYTELLING
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The network makes a larger kind of story possible. A transmission on
the broadcast can point toward a Gopher document. The document can
contain coordinates or a password. That clue can open something in
the MUD. A recovered tape inside the MUD can correspond to a real
audio file elsewhere on Nitetime.

Website, protocol, broadcast, archive, and game become different
entrances to one place.

The system does not need to implement every possible connection at
once. The important fact is architectural: the doors are real, and
the mythology is capable of traveling through them.