Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Back in 1997, in an episode called "I, Robot...You, Jane", Joss Whedon pitched Buffy The Vampire Slayer against a demon that had invaded the Internet. This article looks at all of the computer and technology in the episode. Was Sunnydale High was a Mac or Windows school? What does demon possessed computer software look like? And how can techno-pagans build ’circles of protection’ using chat room software alone...

Nine years ago today, BBC2 transmitted for the first time "I, Robot... You, Jane", the eighth episode in Season One of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. The episode revolves around a demon, Moloch, escaping from the pages of a book and onto the internet. Although the UK didn’t get the show until 1999, it first aired in the US nearly two years previously on April 28, 1997. I’ve recently been watching Buffy and Angel through from start to finish, and when I got to this episode I thought it might be good fun to share with you what the internet looked like when viewed from the Sunnydale Hellmouth in 1997.

The episode starts with the demon being bound into the pages of a book by some 15th century monks, and then, as luck would have it, the book turns up in Sunnydale just as they are in the middle of digitising their library. In fact the first scene in the library sets the stall for the battle to come - tradition versus the modernity of late 90s cyberspace...

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