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One of my unrealized ambitions is to one day write one of those stupidly oversimplified pop-science books written by someone who has no real qualifications other than a degree and a bigger desire to be thought-provoking than to be good at his job. For me, it will no doubt be about the unbridled creativity of the early Internet, when it was a new frontier populated by anonymous unseen personalities with legendary backgrounds and cool nicknames; when you could get away with all kinds of crazy stuff because laws about computers hadn't been invented yet; when spam, web pages, social media, and digital marketing were still years away; when we swore Snow Crash was only a couple years out, but we wasted our best minds building anti-spam, anti-malware, and captcha technology rather than lines of non-light arraged in the mind.

This archive contains a list of stuff that shaped my thinking about technology back in college and in the first years of my professional career working as a developer at a tech startup. Since most of these works have become dated (but still relevant), and most of the original archives hosting them have long since disappeared, I present this collection of my favorites here as time capsule, without comment. I am assuming everything is free to republish with attribution and without modifications (we didn't yet have GCC when most of this stuff was originally posted, and this stuff was being passed around usenet, freenet, and pretty much every BBS message board worth its salt at the time). If you are the copyright holder and want me to take down your publication simply drop me a note and I will happily do so.

• Baker, Jody. "Modeling Industrial Thresholds: Waste at the Confluence of Social and Ecological Turbulence." Emily Carr University. 1994.
• Boutin, Paul. "101 Ways to Save the Internet."
• comp.dcom.telecom et al. "Prodigy and GEnie Hate and Rumors." Usenet: comp.dcom.telecom. May 1991.
• Cookie, Kevin and Dan Lehrer. "The Whole World Is Talking." The Nation. July 12, 1993.
• Detweiler, L. "Identity, Privacy, and Anonmity on the Internet" 1993.
• Dibbel, Juian. "A Rape in Cyberspace." The Village Voice, December 21, 1993.
• Dumont, Jon Michael. "The Electronic Living Will and Formalities of Execution." Villanova University, School of Law. May, 1993.
• Dvorak, John C. "Trust Congress? Not With This Unbelieveable Lair of Slop." PC Computing. April 1994.
• Elmer-DeWitt, Pilip. "Technospeak." Time. February 8, 1993.
• Hanson, Jay. "The Industrial Religion." November 4, 1993.
• Hardy, Henry Edward. "National Information Systems and the US Bill of Rights." Grand Valley State University. August 18, 1993.
• Kroker, Arthur and Michael A. Weinstein. "The Political Economy of Virtual Reality: Virtual Class." Concordia University. 1994.
• Lanham, Richard A. "The Implications of Electronic Information for the Sociology of Knowledge." University of California, Los Angeles. October 2, 1992
• Lebkowsky, Jon. "Fiction That Bleeds Truth." bOING-bOING. 1992.
• Markoff, John. "The Rise and Swift Fall of Cyber Literacy." New York Times. March 13, 1994.
• Maddox, Tom. "After the Deluge: Cyberpunk in the '80s and '90s." Thinking Robots, an Aware Internet, and Cyberpunk Librarians. 1992.
• Murphy, Ian (as Captain Zap). "Who's Listening?" P/HUN Issue #3, Volume 2. February 11, 1989
• Palmer, Terry. "Under, Over and Around the Net: Interrupting the Utopian Subject of the Internet." July 27, 1994
• Perritt, Henry. "Knowbots, Permissions Headers and Contract Law." Villanova Law School. April 30, 1993.
• Reid, Elizabeth. "Electropolis: Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat." University Of Melbourne Department Of History. 1991.
• Rosenberg, Joel. "Slovotsky's Laws." Nelson Doubleday Press. New York. 1983-2003.
• Rossiyanov, Kirill O. "Stalin As Lysenko'S Editor: Reshaping Political Discourse in Soviet Science." Russian History, Vol. 21, No. 1. SPRING 1994.
• Seabrook, John. "A Reporter at Large: Email from Bill." The New Yorker January 10, 1994.
• Sengers, Phoebe. "Wallowing in the Quagmire of Language: Artificial Intelligence, Psychiatry, and the Search for the Subject." Cultronix. 1994.
• Shade, Leslie Regan. "Gender Issues in Computer Networking." McGill University. August 1993.
• Spencer, Henry. "The 10 Commandments of C Programmers." University of Toronto.
• Steele, Guy L. et al "Jargon File, v2.1.1." June 12, 1990
• Stoll, Clifford. "Stalking the Wily Hacker." Communications of the ACM, Volume 3, Issue 5. May 1988.
• Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. "Violation and Virtuality." The University of Texas at Austin. 1993.
• Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. "Unpublished Interview for Mondo 2000." Mondo 2000. 1995.
• Uncapher, Willard. "Between Local and Global: Placing the Mediascape in the Transnational Cultural Flow." The University of Texas at Austin. 1994.
• Uncapher, Willard. "Community Networks and the Internet." The University of Texas at Austin. 1994.
• (Unknown) "What If God Used Unix."
• Wright, Robert. "Voice of America: Overhearing the Internet." The New Republic. September 13, 1993.
• Young, Jeffrey R. "Textuality in Cyberspace." Princeton University. 1994.