SCALE is opening a new MONDO 2000 record set — a growing archive around the Berkeley cyberculture magazine, its Mondoid readership, and founding editor R. U. Sirius (Ken Goffman).

Why MONDO

Before the web went corporate and Wired went glossy, MONDO 2000 (1989–1998) put virtual reality, smart drugs, hacker politics, and literary cyberpunk on the same high-gloss page. It grew out of High Frontiers and Reality Hackers, was art-directed by Bart Nagel, and published seventeen issues from Berkeley — a permanent cocktail party where William Gibson might sit next to Timothy Leary next to a nootropics entrepreneur. Douglas Rushkoff called it the “voice of cyberculture” in 1994; Time put cyberpunk on the cover in February 1993, a month before Wired launched.

What's in the archive so far

The seed index lives at MONDO 2000:

• Wikipedia — MONDO 2000 and R. U. Sirius
• mondo2000.com — blog relaunch (2017–2025) and current writing
• @mondo2000official on Instagram
• Freaks in the Machine — R. U. Sirius and Shira Chess (Strange Attractor Press; foreword Grant Morrison)
• Deliria2 — Cyberpunks, Mutants & Mondoids return to the Strait of Deliria (Aug 12–13, 2026)
• Internet Archive scans, cover galleries, and open-history pointers

Contribute

We are collecting issue scans, flyers, photos, oral history, and mailing-list fragments.

Submit: up@scalepublishing.com — subject line MONDO records