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August 28, 2003
The Word and The Body
Leslie Orchard, in a comment on the previous post, reminded me of the Future Culture mailing list, on which I used to be a very frequent participant, starting from around 1993. FC, as we abbreviated it, was a pretty critical component of my technology education, particularly in thinking of the sociological impacts of technology, but also in just introducing me to new technologies (Linux? What's that?!?).
For a creative nonfiction workshop I took in 1995, I wrote a long piece that was rooted in my early experiences on the Future Culture listserv, particularly about my first meeting with an online acquaintance and the first death of someone I only knew online.
As you read it, remember the time it was written. This was before Netscape, Amazon, before eBay, before broadband. The Internet was email, IRC, Gopher, and Archie. The web was all text and we used Lynx to browse it.
My how things have changed. . . . and stayed the same.
Here it is: The Word and the Body.
Posted August 28, 2003 11:29 PM