Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe

Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe (sometimes referred to as simply Agora Road) is an internet forum loosely themed around the Vaporwave music scene, as well as internet culture.^[1] The forum was created by, and is administrated by somebody who goes by the alias IlluminatiPirate.^[2]

Forums

Below is a list of all of the forum's categories and topics.

Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe

• General Discussion - Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this board.
  • Hidden Internet - Here you will find obscure interesting stories you will not usually find anywhere else. They are either written by the Travelers of Agora Road or cited sources from others across the web.
  • Stories of Agora Road Travelers (Members Only) - These are fiction stories written by travelers of Agora Road (you). This is a hidden members only section
• Philosophy, & Paranormal - This board is dedicated [to] Philosophy, Religion, and Paranormal [activity].
  • Esoteric - These articles are either written by the Travelers of Agora Road or written from others across the web. Concerning conspiracies, philosophy, & the paranormal.
• Agora's Current Events - The political board for Current Events discussions on Agora Road

Note: Used to be part of Philosophy, & Paranormal^[3], but got split, and thus has some overlap with it.

• /create/ - Creative Bazaar of Agora Road - Post your personal projects that you are working on.

Vaporwave

• Vaporwave General - Discussion dedicated to everything and anything to vaporwave! It includes Vaporwave sub-genres as-well! In this board share your thoughts, articles, reviews, and news of vaporwave!
  • Vaporwave Music Reviews - Community driven vaporwave music reviews.
  • Interviews - Vaporwave interviews of vaporwave artists can be view[ed] here!
  • Eis-T's Vaporwave Landing page - Access source for everything you need and want to know about from the Vaporwave community!
• Music Artists/Production/Discussion - Music Artists/Production/Discussion Board, this board is share your music, discuss the production process and discussion of your favorite music. Share tips, tricks, and ideas.
  • Music Tips

Nostalgia

• Nostalgic Lounge - A lounge to to talk about old tech, retro gaming, Y2K, aesthetics, Web 1.0, and old Internet Cultures.
  • E-Zines - Here you will find "E-zines", a collection of stories or files from the early days of the internet!
• Video Games - A board to talk about video games on console, PC or any other medium

Agora Road's /lit/

/lit/ - Literature - Dedicated to the discussion of literature, books, recs' and members of the Agora Book Club

Live Chat

The forum has a live chat feature which functions similarly to IRC. Below is a list of its rooms:

• Containment Chat - The only room new members of the forum are allowed to use.^{[citation needed]} It is the most popular room in the live chat
• Macintosh Cafe.FM - A general chat with a loose focus on music played on the Nightwave Plaza internet radio
• Chill Chat Cafe - This room is for casual discussion, as arguments are not allowed in this room
• Chiyo-Chat (Agora Plays) - A room for "playing multiplayer games within the community"
• Chat Romance - For members who speak a romance languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian or Italian
• The Agora Weeb Club - For topics related to anime and manga
• Brony Gigga-Chat - Made for discussion of the My Little Pony franchise
• Agora Movie Nights - For discussion of movies, and watching them together

Blog

Before the forum's creation, Agora Road was a blog which covered similar topics to the forum. It could be accessed at www.agoraroad.com^[4], and was likely created in 2016, as evident by the Agora Road YouTube channel's creation date.^[5] The blog is now defunct; going to the blog's URL now redirects to Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe.

Music Releases

Agora Road has released 3 vaporwave albums. They are compilations of songs made by many artists within the genre's scene.^[6]

References