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Surviving vestiges of the last ten years
(There were a few posts pre-1989 to comp.ai and rec.music.gaffa I think, using others' accounts.)
A bunch of my signature files, in chronological order
barger@ils.nwu.edu: ILS memoir
1989-93: FTP archives for rec.music.gaffa
Oct89: Kate Bush's Joycean lyrics
FWAKE-L mailing list for Finnegans Wake
Sept91: r.m.gaffa's Gurdjieff wars
Dec91: Kate Bush hoax
Ongoing: Finnegans Wake Digest project
16Jun: Bought a cheap Mac SE/30 and a giant, blurry b&w monitor
Dec: New email: jorn@chinet.chi.il.us [local archive]
Jan: ILS memoir posted to rec.arts.int-fiction
Feb-Dec: rec.music.gaffa thermonuclear flamewar
March: New email: jorn@mcs.com; FTP directory
May: quoted on SGML (anticipating XML)
May: DecentWrite word-processor spec
Aug: flame theory
Sept: ASCII art FAQ
24Oct: alt.ascii-art created
Dec: Bill Bixby Memorial haiku contest
24Jan: Keepers ezine
Feb: Joyce FAQ
10Apr: created alt.music.alternative.female
6Jun: rec.arts.ascii (moderated) created
Jun: Pynchon FAQ
4Jul: quoted in Time
July: AI FAQ v1.1 later HTML-ised by Rainer Blome
Sept: Wisdom FAQ mailinglist, about creating a TownSim simulated community
Sept: archived alt.memetics thread
Dec: FAQ for a cheapest-yet 14.4 modem ($99)
5Feb: Construction begun on Robot Wisdom pages
10Feb: Kibo hypertext
22Feb: Finnegans Wake hypertext
23Feb: Spider's Pick of the Day
Mar: Eve Chose To Know experiment
March: DejaNews archive begins
21Apr: Cool Site of the Day
May: ascii maps
July: my favorite newsgroups
July: W3C list discusses my wishlist
4Sept: created chi.www and chi.music
Oct: Average visitors/day for site passes 300
Dec: AltaVista launched
Overview of Deja threads (all links currently broken I fear)
Jan: Point Communications Top 5%
alt.fan.warlord fun (I got fanmail from Linus Torvalds for one 160k ascii animation that I posted around Xmas 1993, I think. Here's another from Nov93.)
Feb: Critique of TimBL's web style guide
alt.music.category-freak colonized as best-of-netnews group
Major Joyce research
Apr: Hypertext Unabomber manifesto
May: fictionalised in a Borges put-on
July: Retard, Retard, Hoist on Petard
Aug-Nov: Canadian interlude
Nov: blatant plagiarism of web-design-theory page
Summer: etext FAQ
Autumn: consulting for Chris Crawford, bought very cheap 2ndhand PowerMac 7200 (finally upgrade browser from Lynx to Netscape)
Oct: newsgroup finder
17Dec: First weblog
Fulltime weblogger for small, appreciative audience around 100
Feb? quoted in Fortean Times
July: net.literate portal pages
July: began association with This Is Hell radio show
20Feb: move to www.robotwisdom.com courtesy Prosthetic Monkey
March: Cam-of-the-hour experiment
Aug: downshift to parttime weblogger, turning to other projects
Oct: WebWord interview
Dec: picture in Wired
AltaVista's advanced search allows you to specify page-modification date
The Mac Finder (and certainly some utilities for Windows) will sort your harddrive by file-creation date. This is a good way to review your past.
Artist profiles:
Robert Stone Damascus Gate |
Peter Dickinson |
Lindsey Davis |
Iris Murdoch |
John le Carre |
Tom Wolfe |
Harold Brodkey |
Blanche McCrary Boyd |
William Wharton |
Joseph McElroy |
Ward Just |
G Spencer Brown
music:
Joni Mitchell |
Marta Sebestyen |
Mary Coughlan |
Jane Siberry |
Hal Willner |
Michael Hurley |
Incredible String Band |
Van Dyke Parks
film:
Richard Lester |
Mike Leigh |
Jacques Rivette
misc:
J Krishnamurti |
Stephen Gaskin |
Hero Joy Nightingale
One-layer portals: James Joyce | Thomas Pynchon
Autobiographical:
general |
musical |
internet
Odds and ends:
jazz |
rock |
Nabokov |
Jesus |
Wilde |
Picasso |
Gibbon |
1899
How to make resource pages like these: tutorial
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