| Thursday, June 05, 2003 |
 | Last semester in New York, NOBODY ever came to my door who wasn’t delivering food....not one single person…it gets to a point where you essentially don’t exist.
Ghosts on the Net – that comes from a lengthy interview with Kieran (filler, if one wanted to be cruel), from J.C Herz’s “Surfing on the Internet”.
I’ve become slightly addicted to books describing the state of the Interweb about a decade ago – all the starry-eyed talk about 300baud modems, Lynx and MIrc. Fair fills me with nostalgia. Silicon Snake Oil’s confident predictions that computers would never really take off, the Introduction to Internet Culture’s explanation of Kibology. The fear of the creeping power of Prodigy…
In fact, having read that – Kibo turns up in Herz, as well, since there were in fact only about 12 people online at the time – I got to wondering whether Kibo was still around. As it turns out, he is. But is he still relevant, insofar as he ever was? I’m not sure I dare descend back into UseNet, so could somebody just tell me?
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