Can’t get there from here
- Information Backroads
- The information highway is still far from paved.
- The New Literacy
- In the 1700s, thousands of people learned to read solely to get at Thomas Paine’s radical writing. What does today’s Internet have in store for the mass of people trying to get on-line just for the dirty pictures?
- Internet World
- The May, 1994, San Francisco Internet World convention. What does the Internet and the future look like to convention-goers?
- The History of the Information Highway
- How did a bunch of swinging apes go from the trees to the information highway?
- The History of the World Wide Web
- And why do politicians hate the web as much as slaveholders hated writing?
- Living in a World of Text
- Despite all the hype about full-motion video and sound, the Internet remains a text-only communications medium, lacking even italics and multiple typefaces. How do we communicate in such an impoverished environment?
- Is There Anybody Out There?
- Some people on the net use it as one big party line, ringing people at random at three in the morning.
- Go West, Young Men!
- Building an Internet business.
- A New Language
- How does the language of the net affect what gets done on the net?
- Worms, Bugs, and Viruses: Lime Disease on the Information Sidewalk
- Look both ways before crossing this highway.
- Identity
- On the Internet, no one knows who you are except by what you type. Some people even lie about their gender. How do you tell the good guys from the bad guys when you can’t see their hats?
- I Need Drugs!
- Searching for drugs on the infobahn.
- Rebel Without a Modem
- How does America’s love of rebels affect the cyberspace cowboy?
