Updated 2 years ago
The 1990s were an exciting time for the dawn of the Internet, neuroscience, drugs, and music, and New York was ground zero for big money getting funnelled into these areas.
This website started in 1996 as Brainmachines.com – a seller of light and sound meditation devices. Also relied upon heavily were various groups on Yahoo Groups, with a million and a half lines of text over the years that are archived in raw form here, and in modern format here.
Brainmachines.com accumulated over 2 million views and was a staple of the early Internet underground. After a friend got a seizure from using brainmachines glasses, I pulled back on retailing the product. After the brainmachines.com URL was sold to Mindmachines in 2006, the site split into two different sites in 2005 – Nootrition.com, a nootropic company that lasted only two years, and Tranceam.org.
Dormant for a decade, it’s back in 2018 and I began reconstructing it in 2019.
You can get a glimpse into the past, minus all the light glasses information and purchase forms, by looking at the old brainmachines.com website here.
