The roar of a big machine

Contrary to popular rumour, this was not the longest of alt.gothic's threads (that dubious honour goes to Se7en), but it was its biggest in terms of number of bytes and quantity of discussion. It was created by Jennie Kermode and featured prominent contributions from Erithromycin, Klaatu, Dag and nightshade. It focused on the conflict between humans and machines in the past, present and probably future and included speculations on machine-human sex which some regulars found notably unpleasant to read.