In 2001 Electric Minds was shut down by its then-owners. We, the community, raised money for a server, rebuilt it on software I wrote, and kept it alive for years.

I've now brought it back to life, complete with original discussions from 2001-2006, on a new software platform, the Amsterdam Web Communities System.

This is part history, part rebuild, and part experiment: can human-scale online communities still work today?

More on this relaunch: https://erbosoft.com/blog/2026/04/07/electric-minds-reborn/ Source of Amsterdam: https://github.com/amysoxcolo/amsterdam