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The demoscene is a computer art subculture that creates programmed audiovisual art in all kinds of programmable devices, often within very tight constraints. Aspects of the demoscene that may be relevant to permacomputing include:

Media minimization.
Small and optimized program code where bloat and superfluousdependencies are shunned.
The use of limitations and peculiar hardware characteristics as creative inspiration.
The relationship to old technology. New and old platforms coexist, with old platforms having been supported as a continuous tradition rather than having been rediscovered. New things are constantly discovered even on classic platforms.
It is an example of a pre-siliconization subculture that still holds on some of the pre-siliconization values.