Origin of "Demo or Die!"
category: offtopic [glöplog]
Hanging around the web I've found The Origin of “Demo or Die”. As this is (or at least used to be) common phrase in demos, I am thinking where it started? (link is obviously offtopic in this matter and brief look into wikipedia told me it is even not that old as is used in demoscene).
Wasn't it Sanity's slogan originally?
See Sanity's demos. For instance, Interference.
Skate or die!
Possibly from the term "Skate or Die" which was aimed at people in the skating community who didn't actually skate. similar to "Make a demo about it" | "Put up or shut up" | "Show us what you got"
MIT media lab started in the 80s which was near the same time the skater term became popular.
skate or DIE! die! die! die! die! die!
i'm just guessing
MIT media lab started in the 80s which was near the same time the skater term became popular.
skate or DIE! die! die! die! die! die!
i'm just guessing
It's a quote from Einstein's original paper on General Relativity. "Demo oder tod".
it started as DEMO OR DIET!
Yep i remember the phrase from those 80's skating days, along with other ingenious lines as "go skate or go home", "skateboarding is not a crime", "live to skate, skate to live" etc. It was before EA's game but that of course made it much more popular...
@Serpent - ahh, the good olde days. Remember the bruised and broken wrists, knees and ankles and the scraped palms, knees and elbows? Not too mention worn out wheels and bearings, scraped rails, broken truck and snapped boards?
Skate or die, mutha fukka!
I miss my Powell Peralta deck. I don't think I could afford the life/health insurance premiums if I chose to try and go for a grind these days!
Skate or die, mutha fukka!
I miss my Powell Peralta deck. I don't think I could afford the life/health insurance premiums if I chose to try and go for a grind these days!
ringo: heh sure do as i skated again from 1997 till 2000 (regularly) and again from 2008- at least once a year :D
got a demomaking is not a crime t-shirt from one of the bunzli parties :)
"exe or it didn't happen"
Yeah i still got the "demomaking is not a crime" buenzli t-shirt :)
AfaIr "Demo or Die" was a Sanity's slogan, invented by them in the early 90s (92 or max 93?).
Serpent: adding "skateboarding is dead, now leave us alone" there
i also skated regularily until 2003, more then ten years total.
tried it again in 2008 and nearly broke my wrist, decided then that biking is more my sports now. :D
concerning origins of "demo or die" i have two theories.
the mentionend modification of "skate or die" &
the possible statement to the illegal scene to only do demos.
i also skated regularily until 2003, more then ten years total.
tried it again in 2008 and nearly broke my wrist, decided then that biking is more my sports now. :D
concerning origins of "demo or die" i have two theories.
the mentionend modification of "skate or die" &
the possible statement to the illegal scene to only do demos.
