Ian & Stuart's Australian Mac: Not for Sale/Another.not.for.sale (Australia).iso/hold me in your arms/Michael Ney's Cyberculture/Cyberculture/Cyberpoet Guide 2 Virtual Cultu

Text File | 1994-09-02 | 129KB | 3,507 lines

Topic 324       Cyberpoet Guide 2 Virtual Culture       1 response
peg:visionary   cyberculture zone       11:39 PM  Mar  4, 1994


 A Cyberpoet's Guide to Virtual Culture
 X-Posted from: alt.cyberspace  - Feb 24, 1994
 From: [e-mail]

 LENGTH: 3418 lines - yep thats about 51 pages folks !!! b-warned !!!
_._______________________________________________________________________.
_...______________________________________________________________________
_________________...____.. _____ . _______....________.....  . ..  ____.__

     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //                                                                  |
   //                          \\      //       ///////                 |
  //                            \\    //       //                       |
 //                              \\  //       //                        |
///////////// yberpoet's Guide to \\//irtual ///////ulture              |
                                                                        |
A multipart guide to the electronic frontier.                    029422 o

The next response contains the entire document - including this brief intro.

IT IS VERY LONG - check your (c)apture file is on - or download.

_._______________________________________________________________________.

-=- 01.Introduction

Beyond the hype, behind the glamour, underneath the sea of buzzwords,
icons and flames a new subculture is spreading in this petri dish known as
the Internet. Here science and art - media and mind - combine in a cyborg
frenzy to create this replicant cousin to cyberpunk and hacking. It is a
subculture with no name, few labels, but thousands of common attractors,
which form ideas that link together before our eyes like digital DNA to
create, in the helix of the autologue, a new frontier for participants in
these wide virtual spaces to explore.

Any document that attempts to cover an emerging culture is doomed to be
incomplete. Even more so if the culture has no overt identity (at least
none outside virtual space). But the other side of that coin presents us
with the oportunity to document the ebb and flow, the moments of growth
and defeat, the development of this young culture.

Although young, there is rich history and varied philosophies for this
group to draw on. From cyberpunk, the quest for access to information and
a vision of the future (the cyber part) has been exorcised from the
distopic and 'punk'ish views of the monster the media has made of
cyberpunk. From the Hacker society, we get the rally cry that "infomation
wants to be free." From the workings of the Internet, we see the desire
for universal access and the pursuit of Jeffersonian Democracy (kapor)
that is manifested itself partially through the anarchy inherent in the
system and partially through the efforts of many net.users.

This document, although different in many ways, attempts to pick up where
the FutureCulture FAQ (by andy hawks) left off. It should act as a
starting point for those new to the net, as one avenue to obtain a level
of net.literacy, and as a handy reference point for those already
comfortable in this pocket of the net.

                     -oO   -=<>=-   Oo-

[Cyberpoet]   Cyber-, having to do with information flow, human and
computer use/combinations, computer mediated communication. -Poet, one who
makes art with words, an artist, a renaissance trait. A cyberpoet is one
who strives to be artful in their use of virtual space. Someone who makes
frequent trips to the edge of technology/culture/society and then reports
back to anyone who will listen. The avant-guard of virtual culture.
Someone who, like a renaissance man, has their eye on the future and their
nose in its knowledge, technologies and politics.

                     -oO   -=<>=-   Oo-

I have to give credit where it's due... many thanks to Andy Hawks
for starting the FutureCulture elist, the home of this document.

The inspiration and content of the cyberpoet's guide comes largely
from the FutureCulture FAQ, which was authored by Andy. Others who
contributed in detail and spirit are Freeside's Thesisnet-FAQ, John
December's Internet-cmc, and Scott Yanoff's Internet Services List.
Many thanks to them as well.

-=- 01.2.Contents       |
-------------------------

Part I

-=- 01.Introduction
        o preface
        o contents -=>what you are reading<=-
        o guest FAQ
        o copyright notices & stuph

Part II

-=- 02.Places
        o Libraries - cyber-repositories of data
        o Museums, galleries, ezines & stuph
        o Elists & newsgroups
        o Cafes - virtual pubs and coffeehouses
        o Parks & rec -public spaces and interesting faces

Part III

-=- 03.Net Entities
        o Gov't - USA and otherwise
        o Organizations - EFF, FAF, CPSR, etc.
        o Access points

-=- 04.Kibble
        o Halcyon
        o Ongoing projects
        o Upcoming conferences

-=- 05.Resources & References
        o Online how-to's
        o Similiar lists
        o Assorted online resources

Part IIII

-=- 06.Offline Interests
        o Magazines
        o Bibliography

Part V

-=- 07.Lexicon of Virtual Culture
        o The dictionary
        o who's who.


--- end of intro ---



_._______________________________________________________________________.
_...______________________________________________________________________
_________________...____.. _____ . _______....________.....  . ..  ____.__

     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
    //                                                                  |
   //                          \\      //       ///////                 |
  //                            \\    //       //                       |
 //                              \\  //       //                        |
///////////// yberpoet's Guide to \\//irtual ///////ulture              |
                                                                        |
A multipart guide to the electronic frontier.                    029422 o


-=- 01.Introduction

Beyond the hype, behind the glamour, underneath the sea of buzzwords,
icons and flames a new subculture is spreading in this petri dish known as
the Internet. Here science and art - media and mind - combine in a cyborg
frenzy to create this replicant cousin to cyberpunk and hacking. It is a
subculture with no name, few labels, but thousands of common attractors,
which form ideas that link together before our eyes like digital DNA to
create, in the helix of the autologue, a new frontier for participants in
these wide virtual spaces to explore.

Any document that attempts to cover an emerging culture is doomed to be
incomplete. Even more so if the culture has no overt identity (at least
none outside virtual space). But the other side of that coin presents us
with the oportunity to document the ebb and flow, the moments of growth
and defeat, the development of this young culture.

Although young, there is rich history and varied philosophies for this
group to draw on. From cyberpunk, the quest for access to information and
a vision of the future (the cyber part) has been exorcised from the
distopic and 'punk'ish views of the monster the media has made of
cyberpunk. From the Hacker society, we get the rally cry that "infomation
wants to be free." From the workings of the Internet, we see the desire
for universal access and the pursuit of Jeffersonian Democracy (kapor)
that is manifested itself partially through the anarchy inherent in the
system and partially through the efforts of many net.users.

This document, although different in many ways, attempts to pick up where
the FutureCulture FAQ (by andy hawks) left off. It should act as a
starting point for those new to the net, as one avenue to obtain a level
of net.literacy, and as a handy reference point for those already
comfortable in this pocket of the net.

                     -oO   -=<>=-   Oo-

[Cyberpoet]   Cyber-, having to do with information flow, human and
computer use/combinations, computer mediated communication. -Poet, one who
makes art with words, an artist, a renaissance trait. A cyberpoet is one
who strives to be artful in their use of virtual space. Someone who makes
frequent trips to the edge of technology/culture/society and then reports
back to anyone who will listen. The avant-guard of virtual culture.
Someone who, like a renaissance man, has their eye on the future and their
nose in its knowledge, technologies and politics.

                     -oO   -=<>=-   Oo-

-=- 01.2.Contents       |
-------------------------

Part I

-=- 01.Introduction
        o preface
        o contents -=>what you are reading<=-
        o guest FAQ
        o copyright notices & stuph

Part II

-=- 02.Places
        o Libraries - cyber-repositories of data
        o Museums, galleries, ezines & stuph
        o Elists & newsgroups
        o Cafes - virtual pubs and coffeehouses
        o Parks & rec -public spaces and interesting faces

Part III

-=- 03.Net Entities
        o Gov't - USA and otherwise
        o Organizations - EFF, FAF, CPSR, etc.
        o Access points

-=- 04.Kibble
        o Halcyon
        o Ongoing projects
        o Upcoming conferences

-=- 05.Resources & References
        o Online how-to's
        o Similiar lists
        o Assorted online resources

Part IIII

-=- 06.Offline Interests
        o Magazines
        o Bibliography

Part V

-=- 07.Lexicon of Virtual Culture
        o The dictionary
        o who's who.


-=- 01.3.Guest FAQ     |
------------------------

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
o  This issue's guest FAQ  : Prempted by News         o
o             (send me your FAQs for inclusion)       o
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

This section left blank in the request that you read up on the clipper
fiasco currently going on with the US gov't. Those of you of
international flavor reading this might be a good idea, for it could help
you prevent this error in your country.

Pointers on where to look for Clipper info

USENET -
        comp.org.eff.talk
        alt.privacy.clipper      What you don't know can hurt you.
        alt.security.pgp        The Pretty Good Privacy package.
        alt.politics.datahighway   You've read about it. Now Bitch about it.

FTP
        ftp.eff.org             pub/EFF/Policy/Clipper/
        soda.berkeley.edu       pub/cypherpunks

GOPHER
        gopher.eff.org          eff/policy/clipper
        wired.com

o Some Action o

[from [e-mail]]

        EFF WANTS YOU - TO CALL FOR SENATE HEARINGS ON CLIPPER!


*** Distribute Widely ***

Feb. 15, 1994

Dear Friends on the Electronic Frontier,

Thank you for your efforts in fighting the government's ill-considered
Clipper proposal. We have already delivered over 2250 messages supporting
H.R. 3627 to Rep. Cantwell, and your messages have continued to flood in.
We'd now like to ask you to help us call for Congressional hearings on
Clipper by writing to Senator Patrick Leahy c/o [e-mail].

As we have previously reported, the Clinton Administration has announced
that it plans to proceed on every front to make the Clipper Chip
encryption scheme a national standard and to discourage the development
and sale of alternative powerful encryption technologies. If the
government succeeds in this effort, the resulting blow to individual
freedom and privacy could be immeasurable.

So far, the government has resisted requests that it explain its policy.
When the Presidential Decision Directive calling for Clipper deployment
first appeared last spring, the Administration promised a report that
re-evaluated cryptography and privacy policy in light of technological
changes, the coming of the National Information Infrastructure, and the
end of the Cold War. The Administration also made a commitment to
meaningful public dialog before taking any major action on escrow
deployment or new legislation.

Yet in spite of the efforts of EFF, CPSR, ACLU, and other groups to
provide extensive input to the Administration, the promised policy report
never arrived, and the Administration has now said there will be no report
after all. This failure of public accountability makes Congressional
hearings an absolute necessity.

There are individuals in Congress willing to look into the Clipper
proposal and related policies--if they hear from you. Senator Patrick
Leahy (D-Vermont), who chairs one of the key committees responsible for
these issues, has asked for comments and concerns about the viability of
the Clipper initiative.

Here's where we need your help. *Please write Senator Leahy at

        [e-mail]

and ask that the Senate hold hearings about Clipper.* Senate hearings may
be the only means of ensuring public feedback about Clipper, and, just as
important, they may be the only means of forcing the Administration to
explain its Clipper policy. Please express your concerns about the United
States' Clipper policy and cryptographic policy in general. Your letters
in support of hearings will be printed out and delivered to the senator.

And if you haven't written Rep. Maria Cantwell to show your support for
H.R. 3627, her bill to relax export restrictions on encryption technology,
now's the time to do so. Just send e-mail to

        [e-mail]

and put "I support H.R. 3627" in your Subject header. Letters in support
of the bill will be printed out and delivered to Rep. Cantwell.

Our fight to keep national encryption policy out in the open--and to
continue allowing individuals to use encryption to ensure their own
privacy--has only just begun. In the coming weeks and months, we will be
working to give you more ways to make your voice heard on these vital
public issues.

Sincerely,

Jerry Berman
Executive Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation


See ftp://ftp.eff.org/pub/EFF/Policy/Clipper/ for more information on the
Clipper/Skipjack key escrow scheme.


o How to get PGP o

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to ensure their own right to privacy, they get PGP :-).

Tired of sending your e-mail on postcards? Send me mail at
<[e-mail] with Subject "Bomb me!" to get Gary Edstrom's PGP FAQ
and my "Here's How to MacPGP!" guide. (They are also available by
anonymous ftp to netcom.com in /pub/gbe and /pub/qwerty).

PGP is the free encryption program designed by Phil Zimmerman, and is
available for most any computer.

 -=Xenon=- <[e-mail]>


======================================================================

-=- 01.4.Stuph         |
------------------------

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
o  Legalese, copyright notice, some parting          o
o  words.                                            o
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The contents contained herein are not to be construed as legal advice, nor
is the author/publisher responsible for any damage that might result from
the use of any information or software gathered from using this document.
The author/publisher will make every effort to see that the information is
up to date, but cannot warranty that it is.

This document, it's format, theme and articles are copyright 1993,1994 John
Frost [[e-mail]], except where the copyright is retained by the
original author. The rights to distribute and reproduce this document are
granted in accord with the Agitprop guidelines founded by Bruce Sterling.
A copy of those guidelines may be found via ftp at ftp.eff.org
ftp/pub/Publications/Bruce_Sterling or at EFF's gopher site. Other uses and
non-electronic reproduction of this document must be cleared, in writing,
with John Frost.

To add information to, or suggest changes in, this document please email
[e-mail] with the word CYBERPOET in the subject.

As far as I know this list is archived at ftp.eff.org and Mindvox. Please
inform me of any other archival so that I may make mention of them here.

          -oO Some parting words Oo-

   Information wants to be free.  Believe it, pal.
            -=- Bruce Sterling

   If only you could see what I've seen through your eyes.
            -=- Blade Runner

    I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this
very planet. it is staring us in the face.  It is still in its infancy,
still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is
achieving evolutionary change at a rate which leaves the old gene panting
far behind.....
            -=- Richard Dawkins [concerning memes]

    The techno-underground is a direct descendant of the hippy revolution.
            -=- Select Magazine (April '92)

     They made LSD illegal.  I wonder what they're going to do about this
stuff.
            -=- Jerry Garcia (about VR)

   Cyberpunk is really about the present.
            -=- Rudy Rucker

   On the Internet, no one knows that you're a dog.
            -=- New Yorker Comic




Part II of V

A Cyberpoet's Guide to Virtual Culture -

-=- 02.Places
        o Libraries - cyber-repositories of data
               -o- FTP sites
               -o- Telnetable Repositories
               -o- Gopher Space
        o Museums, galleries, ezines & stuph
               -o- Art FTP sites
               -o- Art Centered Elists
               -o- Ezines
               -o- Misc Internet Art
        o Elists & newsgroups
               -o- Elists
               -o- Newgroups
        o Cafes - virtual pubs and coffeehouses
               -o- IRC
               -o- The world of Internet BBS'
               -o- Other Net Cafes
        o Parks & rec - public spaces and interesting faces
               -o- Elists & Zines
               -o- FTP sites
               -o- Mu*'s
               -o- Game Servers, Etc


-=- 02.Places
------------------------------------------------------
-=- 02.1.Libraries       |
-------------------------

Like a child who enjoys reading, a cyberpoet will return often to hir
favorite net.repository of information and check for new 'books.' Unlike
everyday reality [ER], there are thousands of libraries and also unlike ER
they are usually less then 100 keystrokes away. No fossil fuel is burned;
they are almost never closed; and the cost of use is minimal, undoubtedly
a few steps in the right direction.

A cyberpoet with a good memory or a handy Personnal Digital Assistant
[PDA](such as a Newton, Sharp, or Intelligent Agent) will often be able to
list off hir favorite net.repositories upon request. However it is often
useful to have a pre-made list of common sites to forward if time is short
or the PDA is without batteries. Consider this such a list.


         -o0 FTP sites 0o-
      the self service library

~o 141.214.4.135
        - UnderWorld Industries
        - 8.3 format *yuck*  =)

~o alfred.carleton.ca
   pub/freenet/working.papers/
        - Volumes of information on Freenets and Internet Use

~o aug3.augsburg.edu
   /pub/bbs-lists
        - Lists of BBS's internet and dial-up
        - also the archives of the Auggie BBS.

~o bertha.pyramid.com
        - leri, cybernews info
        - an archive on personal freedom

~o byrd.mu.wvnet.edu
   /pub/ejvc/
        - Electronic journal on virtual culture archives
   /pub/history
        - History archives, databases, other...
        - Some internet History
        - Mostly political and military now.
   /pub/merton
        - Merton-L archives

~o cert.sei.cmu.edu
   /pub
        - Computer/Internet Security (those guys in red shirts)
        - Computer Emergency Response Team FAQ (anti-viral)
        - virus-l archives

~o coombs.anu.edu.au
   /coombspapers
        - a variety of research papers about the 'internet' etc.
        - some papers on buddhism.

~o dhvx20.csudh.edu
   /global.net
        - Toward a truely global network
        - Archives on networks around the world, mostly 3rd world.
          (Maybe it's his first time around.)

~o dla.ucop.edu
  /pub/internet
        - Library Resources Guide

~o etext.archive.umich.edu
        - a wealth of text archives
        - recipient of the most discriptive e-address award

~o ftp.cica.indiana.edu
   /pub/pc/win3
       - Windows software archive  Also the home of the

~o ftp.cpsr.org
       - Tap-Info archives (Ralph Nader's Internet Group)
   /cpsr/work
       - CPU: an ezine for cpsr news and info.
   /cypherpunks
       - cypherpunks archive

~o ftp.cwru.edu
  /hermes
       - Supreme Court ASCII rulings.
       - Also available thru telnet and gopher.

~o ftp.eff.org
       - preferred access: gopher
       - recently reorganized to server you better.
        - There is no way I could cover all the good stuff available here.
          It is my suggestion that you spend some time skimming each
          document to grok its true purpose.
        - also note that all the zines & journals have been moved to
          etext.archive.umich.edu and the IRC archive has been moved
          to ftp.kei.com /pub/irc

        /pub/Alerts     - Up to the minute alerts for the iNet community.
        /pub/CAF        - Computer Academic Freedom Archives
                /banned - banned books list.
        /pub/EFF        - misc, newsletters & eff Policy
        /pub/Groups     - Info/archives from groups on the outposts.faq
        /pub/Net_info   - Big Dummy Guide, Cyberpoet's Guide and more.
        /pub/Publications - written material from the likes of
                - Bruce_Sterling, Esther_Dyson, John_Gilmore, CuD,
                  John_Perry_Barlow, Mike_Godwin, Mitch_Kapor and more

~o ftp.kei.com
  /pub/irc
        - irc elist archives.

~o ftp.msstate.edu
        - History - Africa & Americas
        - fineart_online (an epub and archives)

~o ftp.nevada.edu
  /pub/guitar
       - Guitar Chords, Tablature.

~o ftp.rpi.edu
  /pub/communications
       - internet-cmc (also known as the december list).

~o ftp.u.washington.edu
    [] the alt.cyberpunk archives that used to be maintianed here    []
    [] are missing. If you know where they are now, please update me []
    [] ditto the alt.drugs archives                                  []

   /pub/virtual-worlds
       - a library of information of Virtual Reality

~o ftp.uwp.edu--
       - THE central repository for music information
       - Lyrics, gifs, discographies, etc, etc, etc...

o grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.19.233)
 /info/articles
        - Academic papers and news articles about hacking
        /info/hacking
        - Quotations from "experts" about hackers and hacking
        /info/jfk
        - JFK conspiracy files, alt.conspiracy.jfk archives
               - you can telnet to this ftp site, login iscabbs

o KSUVXA.KENT.EDU
  /library
       - Acadlist - list of academic elists

~o lysita.lysator.liu.se
    - many texts (including SF zines and stories)
    - Magick, religion et al.
    - Black7 disc. list archives =)

~o media-lab.media.mit.edu
  /access/
       - information concerning the mit media lab in
         particular, see ProjList, the list of
         medialab-related projects

~o mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu
  /pub/etext
       - Project Gutenberg and other etext holdings (books!)

o ncsuvm.cc.ncsu.edu
        Couldnot access... anyone know of mirrors?
  /pmc
       - General files about postmodernism
       - Avital Ronell Interview
       - Dead Doll Humility
             by Kathy Acker
       - Notes Toward an Un-written Non-Linear
         Electronic Text "The End of Print Culture"
         A Work in Progress
             by Michael Joyce
       - Play it Again, Pac-Man
             by Charles Bernstein

~o netcom.com
  /pub/amcgee/*
       - leftist, liberal, activism stuff.
  /pub/fixion
       - collabrative fiction, but more.
  /pub/Guides
       - the Internet Mall (commercial entities on the net)

~o nexus.yorku.ca
  /pub/Internet-info
       - Lot's of stuff, including High Weirdness.

o nic.funet.fi
  /pub/culture
       - Cultural Information

o nicco.sscnet.ucla.edu
        [] Gone! ugh... anyone know any mirrors? []
  /pub/papers/
       - a course in sociology and cyberspace by Peter Kollock
       - Mark Smith's masters thesis
       - virtual center for the study of virtual spaces archives

~o nifty.andrew.cmu.edu
  /pub/QRD
       - AIDS info/gay rights info
  /pub/erotica
        - like it says... erotica (a fair sized archive too)

o oak.oakland.edu
       - software archive for PCs and UNIX.

o obi.std.com
  /pub/obi
       - On-Line Text (published works)

o ocf.berkeley.edu
   /pub/Library
       - lib. of docs, bible, lyrics, etc.

o panda1.uottawa.ca    pub/religion
       - Electric Mystics Guide
       - Much religious stuff

o parcftp.xerox.com
        [] down due to (hacking?)  back soon []
  /pub/MOO/papers/
       - mud-related perspectives on social worlds in vr
       - stuph.

o penguin.gatech.edu
  pub/leri/articles
       - Timothy Leary's 8 Circuit Model

o pilot.njin.net
  pub/ftp-list/ftp.list
       - List of FTP Sites (1992 version)

o pit-manager.mit.edu
        - USENET repository
        - General Net Info
        - tends to be a little techie (RFC's and the like)

o quartz.rutgers.edu or cathouse.org
  /pub/humor
        -  text/humor files (tv, sex..)

o sulaw.law.su.oz.au
  /pub/law
        - Law libraries and legal research.

o slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com
  /pub/loopy
       - Loopy (Quantum Gravity & String Theory)
  /pub/magick
       - Magick, not parlor tricks.
  /pub/scripture.*
       - Church of Virtuality/Reality
  /pub
       - High Weirdness
             + Guide to some interesting stuph
       - The Human Evasion
             + by Celia Green
       - Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Selected Bibliography
             + by Terence Harpold
       - Principia Discordia
             + by Malacalypse the Younger
       - wilson.on.cis
             + Interview with Robert Anton Wilson
       - Temporary Autonomous Zones (TAZ)
             + by hakim Bey
             + a defining work of virtual space.
       - New Maps of HyperSpace
             + Terence McKenna
       - schizmat
             + Tom Maddox on Schizmatrix (by B. Sterling)

o soda.berkeley.edu
  /pub/cypherpunks
       - CryptoAnarchist Manifesto
       - Cryptography Glossary

o sounds.sdsu.edu
       - sounds archive

o sunset.cse.nau.edu
       - pictures, sounds

o sunsite.unc.edu
  /pub/docs
       - internet-info
  /pub/multimedia/OTIS
       - OTIS archives.

o wiretap.spies.com
   /Clinton
        - Clinton Public Docs & Speeches

o wuarchive.wustl.edu
       - pictures, sounds


        -o0 Telnetable Repositories 0o-

o CARL telnet pac.carl.org or 192.54.81.128
        - Online database, book reviews, magazine fax delivery

o FedWorld Gateway  telnet fedworld.doc.gov or 192.239.92.201
        - Access to some gov't databases, files, libraries, etc.

o Hpcwire               telnet hpcwire.ans.net (Login: hpcwire)
      - menu-driven information searches.

o InterNIC              telnet rs.internic.net
      - Gopher, WAIS, Whois, finger, book orders, etc

o Law Library   telnet liberty.uc.wlu.edu (login: lawlib)
      - State,Computer,Law Library.

o LawNet   telnet lawnet.law.columbia.edu (login: lawnet)
      - Law/Judicial info and catalogs access.

o Library of Congress   telnet locis.loc.gov
      - lib. of congress, legislative info, and copyright info.

o NSSDCA  nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
  login as "NODIS" no password
        - online catalog of NASA material

o Rutgers CWIS   telnet info.rutgers.edu
        - (CIA World Factbook, Religious/Gov't Texts)
        - Recommend select LIBRARY
        - dictionary/thesaurus/familiar-quotations

o World Wide Web info.cern.ch
        - an attempt to build an online hypertext reference work.


        -o0 Gopher Space 0o-

A menu based realm of information access. To use these gopher servers,
'gopher gopher.server.name', (unless otherwise noted) else hunt them down
from the global menu. Much gopher stuff is duplicated at ftp sites, and
vica versa.

o gopher cns.cscns.com
   offers: ASCII Clip Art, USA Today, UPI News,
        Commerce Biz Daily, Classifieds

o gopher english-server.hss.cmu.edu
   A variety of info... worth a surf. Lots of links.. almost uptodate

o telnet fattAW, legal issues, gov't.

o gopher.eff.org

     - legal issues in cyberspace.  privacy, freedom, etc.

o telnet GOPHER.GSFC.NASA.GOV (login: gopher)
     - nasa info & GSFC info (was Nicolas BBS)
     - images
     - a selection of internet resources
     - a selection of internet resources

o telnet nicol.jvnc.net or telnet 128.121.50.2 (Login: nicol)
     - Access to internet resources
     - Elec. Publishing Service (library resources)

o gopher una.hh.lib.umich.edu
     - helpful directories for the Inet
     - much more stuff (really incredible)

o wiretap.spies.com
     - collection of etexts
     - white house releases

o is.internic.net
     - alternative: telnet is.internic.net  login gopher
     - pointers to and fulltext of resource guides
     - information about the internet itself


        -o0 World Wide Web 0o-

Although others would claim that WWW isn't the latest greatest thing
on the Internet, it is just beginning to come into wider use (what with
the advent of Mosaic at al). So, like the good soldier, I have added this
section. It is small now, but with your support, and a keen eye, it will
grow fast.

o  http://www.ncb.gov.sg
    -  Singapore National Computer board

o http://nearnet.gnn.com/GNN-ORA.html
    - O'Reilly & Associates Global Network News

o http://www.wired.com
    -  WiReD magazine

o http://solar.rtd.utk.edu/friends/home.html
   - New Russia-American  Friends and Partners

o http://www.ifi.uio.no/~mariusw/nexus/
   - Nexus elist info


-=- 02.2.Museums, galleries & stuph   |
---------------------------------------

Every subculture has art it can call it's own. Indeed, some would say that
without art it would not really be a culture at all. The world of
virtual culture is no exception. Civilizations, uncivilized that they are,
have been prone to collecting art in museums, supposedly to make public
viewing easier. The result, however, is that only a few people see this
art every year and the scarcity of this viewing makes the art-world seem
elitist. To some extent, this has been replicated in virutal space.

However, the medium of the net allows for wider distribution and new
spaces for all forms of art. New spaces, even new artforms, pop up all the
time and hopefully find their way into this document. This activity seems
to be both motivated by and motivating a groundswell in popular art and
computer mediated art.

      -o0 FTP & WWW sites 0o-

o  alt.pictures.fine-art.*
       archives can be found the file
    ftp uxa.ecn.bgu.edu  /pub/fine-art

o Amine Info
    - oinker.ucsb.edu /pub/anime

o collection of sci-fi stories
   - http://tardis.ed.ac.uk/~charlie/fictionhome.html


o GIF Pictures (general archives)
    - ahkcus.org
    - apocalypse.engr.ucf.edu /pub/images
    - hubcap.clemson.edu /pub
    - solaria.cc.gatech.edu /pub

o Music
    - ftp.uwp.edu /pub/music
           + Music (lyrics/discographies/etc.)

o mtv www page
   - www.mtv.com

o OTIS (Operative Term Is Stimulate) archives
     - sunsite.unc.edu /pub/multimedia/pictures/OTIS
           + original e-art

o Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) Info
     - ftp.u.washington.edu /public/alt.cyberpunk
           + info on the industrial robot group
        [] missing in action - do you know of copies? []

o WAX:  The Discovery of Television Among the Bees
  a film by Davids Blair
     - ftp.u.washington.edu  /public/alt.cyberpunk
     - reviews and info about David Blair's cyberdelic film
        [] missing in action - do you know of copies? []

     -o0 Art Centered Elists 0o-

o FineArt Forum
  [e-mail]
  <SUB FINE-ART your email address, first-name, last-name,
  and postal address>
       - elist on arts on the net and elsewhere

o Gibraltar
  [e-mail]
       - discussion of artistic and progressive music

o NetJam
  [e-mail]
       - MIDI, musc makers, etc.

o Phillip K. Dick
  [e-mail]
       - list celebrating the famous sf author

o Playlist
  [e-mail] <sub [name]>
       - alternative radio/dj playlists and discussion


     -o0 Ezines 0o-


o Armadillo Culture
  [e-mail]
        - cool ezine

o ArtCom
  [e-mail]
       - interfacing art and communicaion
       - usenet alt.artcom

o BLINK
       - FTP: blink.acns.nwu.edu:/pub/blink
       - WWW:    - http://www.acns.nwu.edu/blink/
       - Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us
       - Issues surrounding the intersection of consciousness and
technology.

o Computer Underground Digest
       - An open forum dedicated to sharing information and the
         presentation and debate of diverse views.
       - FTP: ftp.eff.org:/pub/Publications/CuD
              etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/CuD/cud
              aql.gatech.edu;/pub/eff/cud
              ftp.ee.mu.oz.au:/pub/text/CuD (Australia)
              nic.funet.fi:pub/doc/cud (Finland)
              ftp.warwick.ac.uk:pub/cud (United Kingdom)

o CORE
  [e-mail]
       - fictional/essay e-zine
       - ftp ftp.eff.org for back issues

o Crash
       - Guide to traveling through the underground. Alternative travel
         stories, hints, and tips.
       - FTP: netcom.com:/pub/johnl/zines/crash

o Drum
       - Interesting ASCII layout concept.
       - FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Drum
       - Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us
                 etext.archive.umich.edu

o Fact Sheet 5 - the e.version
       - FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Factsheet.Five
       - Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us
                 etext.archive.umich.edu

o Hi-Rez
       - Electronic Journal for CyberBeatniks
       - FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/CyberPunk/HI-REZ
       - Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu

o Holy Temple of Mass Consumption
       - strong ties to the finest SubGenius traditions
       - ftp: quartz.rutgers.edu  /pub/journals/HToMC

o inter\face
       - FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Interface
       - Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu

o InterText (was Athene)
       - FTP: network.ucsd.edu:/intertext
              etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/
       - Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu

o Line_Noiz_
       - [e-mail] for info
       - to sub send email to [e-mail]
       - with the body: Subscription LineNoiz <your address>

o Meta
       - ftp ftp.netcom.com:/pub/mlinksva
       - cryptography, electronic publishing, free software development,
         intellectual property, internet commercialization, privacy and
         virtual communities.

o Morpho_online
        - etext.archive.umich.edu
        - alt.cyberpunk

o Obscure Electronic
       - Profiles the people in this publishing subculture
       - FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Obscure.Electric
       - Gopher: gopher.well.sf.ca.us
                 etext.archive.umich.edu

o Parthenogenesis
       - FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Parthenogenesis
       - Gopher: etext.archive.umich.edu

o Quanta
  export.acs.cmu.edu  /pub/quanta
  ftp.eff.org /pub/cud/misc/journals
       -fiction ezine

o Scream Baby
  ftp.eff.org /pub/journals/ScreamBaby
  red.css.itd.umich.edu /poli
  ftp.css.itd.umich.edu /poli

o SOUND News and Arts
  quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/journals
       - e-version of the popular zine

o The Undiscovered Country
       - the undiscovered country is a netzine regarding
         life/art/literature/cyberspace/philosophy/etc.
       - FTP: etext.archive.umich.edu:/pub/Zines/Literary/

o UnPlastic News
  ftp.eff.org /pub/cud/misc/journals

o Voices from the net
  [e-mail]
  ftp ftp.dana.edu or uglymouse.css.itd.umich.edu


     -o0 Misc Internet Art 0o-

o Adam Curry's Cyber-Sleaze Report
     - finger [e-mail] or [e-mail]
     - worth putting in your .logout file

o Coke Machines et al.
     - finger info or [e-mail]
                   - finger [e-mail]
            + Tap that coke machine.
     - finger [e-mail]
            + Random Star Trek quotes.
     - finger [e-mail]
            + U.S. Top Pop singles for the week.
     - finger [e-mail]
            + Nasa daily news briefs
     - finger [e-mail]
            + Weekly Nielsen TV ratings
     - internet coffee machine (with Jpeg of coffee)
            + http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html


-=- 02.3.Elists & newsgroups  |
-------------------------------

Two of the most common forms of discourse in virtual culture occur on the
elist (or electronic mailing list) and the USENET newsgroup. While the
up-to-date listings of what elists or newsgroups are up and running are
available on the newsgroup news.answers or the ftp site rftm.mit.edu
(/pub/usenet-by-group/rec.answers) it is very time consuming to examine
each list thouroughly. The following are a few lists which either have
helped to form this virtual culture or deal with various aspects of it.

                       -oO Elists Oo-

o List of eLists
       - ftp ftp.nisc.sri.com   /netinfo/interest-groups.

o Acadlist
       - ftp  KSUVXA.KENT.EDU  /library
       - Acadlist - list of academic elists

o 21st-Century list
  [e-mail]
       - post your views on the 21st-century.

o ACTNOW-L
  [e-mail]
       - College Activism/Information list.
       - To subscribe to this list, send the command,
         SUBSCRIBE ACTNOW-L <myname> / <myschool>

o ADV-ELO
  [e-mail]
       - Sub Adv-elo <your name>
       - to discuss the latest advances in electronics.

o ADV-INFO
  [e-mail]
       - Sub Adv-info <your name>
       - list to discuss the latest advances in computing.

o AIDSNEWS
       - send email to [e-mail]
       - message body: SUBSCRIBE AIDSNEWS Your_Full_Name

o Alternative Institutions
  [e-mail]
       - High Signal to noise ratio.

o [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
      - Amnesty International's Elist
      - message body: sub amnesty <yourname>

o Anarchy List
  [e-mail]
      - discussion of all aspects of anarchy

o Anne Rice
  [e-mail]
      - the works of Anne Rice.
      - To subscribe, send a request to [e-mail].

o APOGEES
  [e-mail]
       - message body: sub apogees full name
       - information management with a business slant

o ArachNet:  E-Journal of Virtual Culture
  [e-mail]
      - message body:  SUB ARACHNET <firstname> <lastname>
      - journal of all aspects of on-line life
      - ftp archive ftp byrd.mu.wvnet.edu  /pub/ejvc

o Artificial Life
  [e-mail]
      - artificial life

o AUtopia (Pirate Ship Utopia)
  [e-mail]
      - a floating technology-oriented commune
      - run by Jagwire X, cool ideas....

o BBS-L
  [e-mail]
      - To help people with getting BBS's going and online
      - Message body: subscribe bbs-l full_name

o BIOSPH-L        Biosphere
  [e-mail]
      - message text:  SUB BIOSPH-L Your Name

o [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
      - CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Access to
        Public Information Working Group.

o COMMUNET
  [e-mail]
      - Community and Civic Networks

o COMMUNITY-ACCESS
  [e-mail]
      - Community Access Issues

o Computers and Academic Freedom
  [e-mail]
      - put  add comp-academic-freedom-news
                   or
             add comp-academic-freedom-talk
         in the first line
      - computing freedom, mostly deals with college campuses
      - (Usenet) alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk or news

o [e-mail]
      - to sub contact moderator @ [e-mail]
      - Society and Computers Information Technology

o COUNCIL
  [e-mail]
      - Global Council Forum -- Moving Beyond the Nation-State
      - Like the UN but different. =)

o CPSR
  [e-mail]
      - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
      - an elist for CPSR-related materials and announcements
      - an elist for CPSR-related materials and announcements

o CRTNet
  [e-mail]
       - email  [e-mail]
          message body:  SUB CRTNET <firstname> <lastname>
       - information theory and technologies

o Cybernetics
  [e-mail]
        - message body: sub cybsys-l full_name

o Cypherpunks
  [e-mail]
        - public key encryption, remailers, e-privacy list

o Cypherpunks Announcement List
  [e-mail]
        - lower volume

o Derrida
  [e-mail]
        - message body: subscribe derrida full_name
        - deconstructionalists Unite :-)

o DEVEL-L Technology Transfer in International Development
  [e-mail]
        - message text: SUB DEVEL-L Your Name

o Digital Games Review
  [e-mail]
        - mail [e-mail]
           [body: 'help' and 'listall Digital.Games']
        - SNES, Sega, etc.

o Edtech
  [e-mail]
        - Educational Technology

o EFF News (EFFector Online)
  [e-mail]
        - subscribe to the electronic version of EFF's
          zine, the EFFector (catchy huh!)

o E-List Review Service
  [e-mail]
        - message body: sub libref-l your name
        - a useful list, if you are looking to add to your
          elist load (most people can handle 2 or 3).

o [e-mail]
        - ETHICS-L is for discussions of ethics in computing.

o Extropians
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
       - nanotechnology, cryonics, anarcho-capitalist
         politics, technological extension of human
         intelligence and perception
       - serious discussion from an informative perspective
       - the first two addresses are for realtime and
         digest versions, respectively, the third is for
         essays and longer posts of interest only

o FNORD-L
  [e-mail]
       - Message body:  sub fnord-l <yourname>
       - philosophies of Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Dr.
         Lilly, etc.

o FringeWare, Inc.
  [e-mail]
       - Paco Xander Nathan's company
       - Your online shopping mall for all that's kewl

o FutureCulture
  [e-mail]
       - message body: sub futurec <yourfullname>
       - discussion of new edge, cyebrculture,
         technoculture.
       - Discussion of future culture and all things
         that entails. (a lot).

o Future Technologies List
  [e-mail]
        - artificial intelligence, nanotech, etc.

o GLOMOD-L
   [e-mail]
        - The Global Modeling Forum

o GNET
  [e-mail]
       - Toward a Truely Global Network
       - archives @ dhvx20.csudh.edu

o ICPT-L
  [e-mail]
       - Internet Research
       - message body "index ipct-l

o The Information Professional's List
       - to join ask for info from [e-mail]
  - for verifiable private investigators, fee-based information brokers,
    document retrieval liasons, commercial intelligence specialists, or
    related professional. Professional  resumes requested.

o Leri-L
  [e-mail]
       - archives at penguin.gatech.edu pub/leri
       - mailing list devoted to meta-programming,
         philosophy, expanding consciousness, etc.
         and a ton of chat.
       - #leri is a popular channel on IRC.

o Libernet
       - Sub address: [e-mail]
       - Archives  Coos.dartmouth.edu
       - Pertaining to all things libertarian.

o [e-mail]
       - sub address: [e-mail]
       - To use, discuss, and contribute to the development of the
constructed human language called Lojban (known in earlier
versions as Loglan). Lojban has a grammar based on predicate
logic, and vocabulary built from the six most widely spoken
human languages. It is intended as a tool for experimental
linguistics, as a medium for communication with computers,
and as a possible international auxiliary language.

o Masonic SIG
  contact: Peter Trei (Internet) [e-mail]
       - Freemasonry, their philosophy et al.
       - the place to lurk for conspiracy theorists! =)

o [e-mail]
       - sub address: [e-mail]
       - MERTON-L was formed for substantive discourse on research
         and scholary inquiry to create and and develop knowledge about
         contemplative life.

o Mind Machine Digest
  [e-mail]
       - ftp asylum.sf.ca.us /pub/mind-l
             ftp.u.washington.edu /public/alt.cyberpunk
       - brain stimulation, nootropics, etc.

o Neuron Digest
  [e-mail]
       -neural networks

o PostModern Culture Journal
  [e-mail] [sub pmc-list your name]
  [e-mail]
       - message body: GET PMC-TALK GUIDE
                       PMC-TALK F=MAIL

o Postmodern Culture Talk
  [e-mail]
       - [sub pmc-talk your_first_name your_last_name]

o PowerGlove List
  [e-mail]
       - <subscribe glove-list [e-mail]>
       - ftp karazm.math.uh.edu /pub/VR

o RISKS Digest
  [e-mail]
       - ftp crvax.sri.com risks
       - the RISKS of computing in our lives

o RRE News Service
  rrehe social and political
         aspects of computers.

o SOCHIST Social History
  [e-mail]
       - message text: SUB SOCHIST Your Name

o Subgenius
  [e-mail]
       - ftp quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/subgenius

o TechnoNomads (Steve Roberts)
  [e-mail]
       - the guy featured on Donahue & Mondo's list
       - nomadness, ham ra [e-mail]
       - deals with all aspects of telecommunications

o ThesisNet
  [e-mail]
       - [e-mail]
              - to 'subscribe' 'unsubscribe' and/or 'faq'

o ThinkNet
  [e-mail]
       - philosophy, systems theory

o Virtual Reality List
  [e-mail]
       - message body: subscribe virtu-l <full_name>

o VPIEJ-L@VTVM1
  [e-mail]
       - An e-conference for electronic publishing issues
       - (Usenet) BIT.LISTSERV.VPIEJ-L

o [e-mail]
  [e-mail]
       - Youth Rights, open to all.


                   -o0 Newsgroups 0o-

A short bit on the Usenet Hierarchy. Alt.groups is supposed to stand for
alternative, but should probably stand for adolescent. These are news
groups waiting to grow up and consequently have a low signal to noise
ratio. But like adolescents, if you really listen to them, you can gleem
some really neat insights. When Alt.groups get a large enough following or
a serious enough topic, they tend to graduate into other prefixes; ie,
comp. (computer) rec. (recreation), sci. (science), bit. (Bitnet
listservs), soc. (social, society). What this means generally, is that the
group becomes heady and cliqueish. But if you're persistant ad polite, you
can usually elicit a response from somebody. One final comment about
USENET, anything I said above is likely to be untrue at any moment in
time. Thus the attraction of USENET for even the most experienced
cyberpoets.

alt.3d                  Three-dimensional imaging.
alt.activism            Activities for activists.
alt.aldus.pagemaker     Forget expensive user support, come here instead.
alt.amateur-comp        The Amateur Computerist.
alt.angst               Anxiety in the modern world.
alt.artcom              Artistic Community, arts & communication.
alt.astrology           Twinkle, twinkle, little planet.
alt.atheism.*           Godless heathens next on Oprah
alt.bbs.ads             Ads for various computer BBS's.
alt.bbs.internet        BBS systems accessible via the Internet.
alt.bbs.lists           Postings of regional BBS listings.
alt.best.of.internet    Sort of an oxymoron.
alt.binaries.*          Pictures, programs, multimedia, etc.
alt.books.anne-rice     A Biting look at the author and her books
alt.buddha.short.fat.guy  Religion. And not religion. Both. Neither.
alt.california          The state and the state of mind.
alt.cd-rom              That shiny amazing disc and it's users.
alt.censorship          Discussion about restricting speech/press.
alt.co-ops              Discussion about co-operatives.
alt.comp.acad-freedom.* Academic freedom issues related to computers.
alt.consciousness       All aspects of consciousness.
alt.conspiracy          Be paranoid --'they' are out to get you.
alt.cult-movies         Movies with a cult following
alt.culture.usenet      A self-referential oxymoron.
alt.culture.internet    A place to comment reflexively
alt.cyberpunk           High-tech low-life.
alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo  Cyberpunk fiction.
alt.cyberpunk.movement  Cybernizing the Universe.
alt.cyberpunk.tech      Cyberspace and Cyberpunk technology.
alt.cyberspace          and how it should work.
alt.devilbunnies        Probably better left undescribed.
alt.discordia           All hail Eris, etc.
alt.dreams              What do they mean?
alt.drugs               Recreational pharmaceuticals.
alt.fan.douglas-adams   Author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
alt.fan.frank-zappa     Is that a Sears poncho?
alt.fan.hofstadter      Douglas Hofstadter and Godel, Escher, Bach.
alt.fan.mst3k           Mystery Science Theatre 3000 tv show.
alt.fashion             All facets of the fasion industry discussed.
alt.gathering.rainbow   For discussing the annual Rainbow Gathering.
alt.gopher              Discussion of the gopher information service.
alt.gothic              Things mournful and dark. Gothic lifestyle's
alt.graffiti            Usenet spraypainters and their documenters.
alt.hackers             Boats of projects currently under develpment.
alt.history.what-if     Really worth reading every now and then
alt.hypertext           Discussion of hypertext
alt.illuminati          See alt.cabal.  Fnord.
alt.individualism       Individualist discussions
alt.industrial          Industrial culture, etc.
alt.internet.access.wanted  People looking for internet access
alt.internet.services   Internet services
alt.irc                 Internet Relay Chat material.
alt.magick              For discussion about supernatural arts.
alt.meditation.transcendental   Contemplation of states beyond.
alt.memetics            Ideas spread like genes. A new discipline.
alt.mindcontrol         You WILL read this group and ENJOY it!
alt.music.alternative   For groups with 2 or less Platinum albums.
alt.news-media          Don't believe the hype.
alt.online-service      Commercial online services, and the Internet.
alt.out-of-body         Nobody's home.
alt.pagan               Discussions about paganism & religion.
alt.paranormal          Phenomena which are not explicable.
alt.politics.*          Politics.
alt.postmodern          Postmodernism, semiotics, deconstruction.
alt.privacy             Privacy issues in cyberspace.
alt.prose               Postings of original writings.
alt.psychoactives       Better living through chemistry.
alt.radio.pirate        Discussions surrounding pirate radio.
alt.radio.scanner       Discussion of scanning radio receivers.
alt.rave                Rave culture.
alt.religion.computers  People who believe computing is "real life."
alt.religion.kibology   He's Fred, Jim.
alt.rock-n-roll.*         Counterpart to alt.sex and alt.drugs.
alt.security            Security issues on computer systems.
alt.security.pgp        The Pretty Good Privacy package.
alt.sex.*               Postings of a purient nature.
alt.skate-board         Discussion of all apsects of skate-boarding.
alt.skinheads           The skinhead culture/anti-culture.
alt.slack               Posting about the Church of the Subgenius.
alt.society.ati         The Activist Times Digest.  (Moderated)
alt.society.civil-disob Civil disobedience.
alt.society.civil-liberties     Individual rights.
alt.society.revolution  Discussions on revolution(s).
alt.society.sovereign   Independantistes, unite!
alt.spam.tin            Spam is neither particle nor wave.
alt.techno-shamanism    Can't program your VCR?  Consult a TechnoShaman.
alt.thrash              Thrashlife.
alt.uu.future           Does Usenet University have a viable future?
alt.wired               Wired Magazine.
alt.zines               Small magazines, mostly noncommercial.
bionet.info-theory      Discussions about biologicalinformation theory.
bionet.neuroscience     Research issues in the neurosciences
bionet.women-in-bio     Discussions about women in biology.
bit.listserv.biosph-l   Biosphere, ecology, Discussion List.
bit.listserv.cyber-l    CDC Computer Discussion.
bit.listserv.disarm-l   Disarmament Discussion List.
bit.listserv.edpolyan   Professionals and Students Discuss Education.
bit.listserv.edtech     Educational Technology elist.
bit.listserv.emusic-l   Electronic Music Discussion List.
bit.listserv.ethics-l   Discussion of Ethics in Computing.
bit.listserv.frac-l     FRACTAL Discussion List.
bit.listserv.4ad-l      The 4AD recording label.
bit.listserv.film-l     Film making and reviews List.
bit.listserv.fnord-l    New Ways of Thinking List.
bit.listserv.frac-l     FRACTAL Discussion List.
bit.listserv.gutnberg   GUTNBERG Discussion List.
bit.listserv.ioob-l     Industrial Psychology.
bit.listserv.mbu-l      Megabyte University - Computers and Writing.
bit.listserv.sganet     Student Government Global Mail Network.
bit.listserv.valert-l   Virus Alert - Urgent Virus Warnings.
bit.listserv.vpiej-l    Electronic Publishing Discussion List.
bit.listserv.xtropy-l   Extropians
comp.ai                 Artificial intelligence discussions.
comp.ai.neural-nets     All aspects of neural networks.
comp.ai.philosophy      Philosophical aspects of AI.
comp.bbs.misc           BBS Discussion
comp.dcom.telecom       Telecommunications digest. (Moderated)
comp.graphics           Computer graphics, art, animation.
comp.graphics.research  Highly technical computer graphics discussion.
comp.graphics.visualization      Info on scientific visualization.
comp.internet.library   Discussing electronic libraries.
comp.music              Applications of computers in music research.
comp.org.eff.news       News from the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.
comp.org.eff.talk       Discussion of EFF goals, strategies, etc.
comp.org.issnnet        The International Student Society for Neural
Networks.
comp.publish.cdrom.*    Concerning cdrom publishing.
comp.research.japan     The nature of research in Japan. (Moderated)
comp.risks              Risks to the public from computers. (Moderated)
comp.robotics           All aspects of robots and their applications.
comp.security.misc      Security issues of computers and networks.
comp.simulation         Simulation methods, problems, uses. (Moderated)
comp.society            The impact of technology on society. (Moderated)
comp.society.cu-digest   The Computer Underground Digest. (Moderated)
comp.society.development    Computer technology in developing countries.
comp.society.folklore   Computer folklore & culture, past & present.
comp.society.futures    Events in technology affecting future computing.
comp.sys.*              Everything you would ever need to know about
computer systems
comp.theory             Theoretical Computer Science.
comp.theory.cell-automata  Discussion of all aspects of cellular automata.
comp.theory.dynamic-sys Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems.
comp.theory.self-org-sys        Topics related to self-organization.
misc.activism.progressive       Information for Progressive activists.
misc.int-property       Discussion of intellectual property rights.
misc.legal.computing    Discussing the legal climate of computing.
news.announce.important General announcements to all. (Moderated)
news.future             The future technology of network news systems.
rec.arts.animation      Discussion of various kinds of animation.
rec.arts.anime          Japanese animation fen discussion.
rec.arts.comics         Comic books and strips, graphic novels.
rec.arts.int-fiction    Discussions about interactive fiction
rec.arts.sf-lovers      Science fiction lovers' newsgroup.
rec.arts.sf-reviews     of science fiction/fantasy/horror works.
rec.arts.sf.announce    Major announcements of SF. (Moderated)
rec.arts.sf.fandom      Discussions of SF fan activities.
rec.arts.sf.marketplace Personal for-sale notices of SF materials.
rec.arts.sf.misc        Science fiction lovers' newsgroup.
rec.arts.sf.movies      Discussing SF motion pictures.
rec.arts.sf.reviews     Critiques of sf stories. (Moderated)
rec.arts.sf.science     Real and speculative aspects of SF science.
rec.arts.sf.tv          Discussing general television SF.
rec.arts.sf.written     Discussion of written sf and fantasy.
rec.music.gdead         A group for (Grateful) Dead-heads.
rec.music.industrial    Discussion of industrial-related music styles.
rec.music.makers        For performers and their discussions.
rec.music.newage        "New Age" music discussions.
rec.music.synth         Synthesizers and computer music.
rec.music.video         Discussion of music videos.
rec.radio.amateur.misc  Amateur radio practices.
rec.radio.noncomm       Topics relating to noncommercial radio.
rec.radio.shortwave     Shortwave radio enthusiasts.
rec.video               Video and video components.
rec.video.releases      Pre-recorded video releases.
sci.bio.technology      Any topic relating to biotechnology.
sci.chaos               The science of Chaos.
sci.cryonics            People who freeze themselves after death.
sci.crypt               Different methods of data en/decryption.
sci.fractals            Objects of non-integral dimension and other chaos.
sci.lang.japan          The Japanese language, both spoken and written.
sci.logic               Logic: math, philosophy & computational aspects.
sci.nanotech            Molecular-scale machines. (Moderated)
sci.philosophy.tech     Technical philosophy: math, science, logic, etc.
sci.psychology          Topics related to psychology.
sci.skeptic             Skeptics discussing pseudo-science.
sci.space               Space. The Final Frontier...not!
sci.virtual-worlds      Virtual reality. (Moderated).
sci.virtual-worlds.apps Applications of VR technology.
soc.culture.japan       Everything Japanese.
soc.culture.usa         The culture of the United States of America.
talk.bizarre            The unusual, bizarre, curious, and often stupid.
talk.philosophy.misc    Philosophical musings on all topics.
talk.politics.drugs     The politics of drug issues.
talk.politics.space     Non-technical issues affecting space exploration.

-=- 02.4.Cafes          |
-------------------------

If you see a net.user with more then one window open, chances are one of
those windows is linked to an electronic cafe. Like ER, these coffeehouse
atmospheres are prime spots for chatting or perhaps a little gaming or
roleplaying. The two most plentiful forms of these cafes in virtual
culture are Mu*s, or Multi-User Dimension or Dungeon (MUDS, MUSE, MUSH,
etc), and IRC, or Internet Relay Chat and of course the orginal, the BBS.
But new versions, offshoots, and even completely different surroundings
are likely to spring up at anytime and often do.


       -o0  IRC  0o-

o IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Info
  cs.bu.edu
  ftp.eff.org /pub/irc
  cs.utk.edu /pub
  speedy.cs.uiuc.edu /pub

o IRC telnet server   (Login: irc)
  telnet irc.demon.co.uk or 158.152.1.74
  telnet sci.dixie.edu 6668 or telnet 144.38.16.2 6668
                telnet irc.tuzvo.sk 6668 or telnet 192.108.157.3 6668
      - Internet Relay Chat via telnet.

o Virtual culture IRC channels
#Autopia        Jagwire X's Autopia group
#ccc            Chaos Computer Club ("/msg CCCServ info" for CCC info)
#cDc            Cult of the Dead Cow
#CyberPunk      Cyberpunk ("/msg CyberBot info" for CPBot Files)
#drugs          Drugs ("/msg LearyBot info" for LearyBot Files)
#free.acid      Hehehe
#future         FutureCulture
#hack           Hacking
#leri           For the discussion of Metaprograming and
                Expanding Consciousness
#mindvox        MindVox
#phreak         Hackers and Phreakers
#Rave_Scen      Raves
#report         News reports from hot spots around the world
#tribe          Of, about, with the tribe elist.
#wired          Concerning the magazine


      -o0 The world of Internet BBS' 0o-

o Am. Philos. Assoc.    eis.calstate.edu
        - gopher gate.oxy.edu
        - Philosophy.

o Auggie BBS   bbs.augsburg.edu   (141.224.128.3)
  login bbs
        - Friendly... good archives.

o Badboy  nameserver.aue.com
  login bbs/new

o Badboy's Inn  badboy.aue.com
  login bbs

o Chatsubo  chatsubo.nersc.gov
  login guest

o Cimmaron  bugs.mty.itesm.mx
  login bbs/new  (limited hours)

o Cleveland Free-Net  freenet-in-[a|b|c].cwru.edu
  129.22.8.[75|76|82]
        - Usenet, MUD, USA Today, Interest groups, local mail

o Eagle's Nest  seabass.st.usm.edu
  login bbs/bbs

o Endless Forest, The   forest.unomaha.edu
  login ef

o Fedworld    fedworld.doc.gov
        - A bbs run by the NIST to house US gov't documents.

o Greta's  garbo.uwasa.fi
  login bbs/new

o ISCABBS  bbs.isca.uiowa.edu  128.255.40.203
  login new
        - largest bbs with 12,000 + users and over 200 online connections

o Kids  kids.kotel.co.kr
  login kids/new

o Mars Hotel  solaria.ee.msstate.edu
  login bbs/bbs

o Monochrome     mono.city.ac.uk
  login mono /psswd mono
        - oh that british humour.

o NEBBS  nebbs.nersc.gov
  login guest

o OUBBS   oubbs.telecom.uoknor.edu
        - catering to University of Oklahoma students

o Prism BBS  bbs.fdu.edu
  login bbs

o Quartz BBS  quartz.rutgers.edu
  login bbs

o Ragged Edge, the   wagner.musicnet.ua.edu

o SCF BBS   freedom.nmsu.edu  (128.123.1.14)
  login bbs

o SkyNet  hpx5.aid.no
  login skynet
       - Norway

o Shadow shadow.acc.iit.edu 192.41.245.143
  login

o Sunset BBS paladine.hacks.arizona.edu
  login bbs

o Virtual Rave  sfraves.stanford.edu 7282
  login new

o YaBBS  phred.pc.cc.cmu.edu 8888  128.2.111.111 8888


    -o0 Other Net Cafes 0o-
o usenet
     -alt.callahans
           + Callahan's bar for puns and fellowship.


-=- 02.5.Parks & Rec.   |
-------------------------

Q. Of course, what is a culture without fun & games? (A. Boring.) Even the
most dedicated hacker craves a little fun everynow and then. Here is some
of the fun stuff to explore.

     -o0 Elists & Zines 0o-

o Cyberpunk RPGs
  [e-mail]
      - Elist discussing cyber orriented RPGs

o FlashLife (CP RPGs)
  [e-mail]
      - Elist discussing cyber orriented RPGs.

o Ravelists
      - DCRAVES
        [e-mail]
        sub dcraves <yourfullname>
      - Florida Raves
        [e-mail]
      - Manchester
        [e-mail]
        ftp irss.njit.edu /pub/manchester
        bands from manchester, raving, shoegazing, etc.
      - MidWest Raves
        [e-mail]
      - NE (NorthEastern) Raves
        [e-mail]
      - SFRaves (SanFrancisco Raves)
        [e-mail]
              + rave culture, mostly in the Bay Area
      - SoCal Raves (Southern California)
        [e-mail]
      - SouthEast Raves
        [e-mail]
        'SUBSCRIBE SERAVES Your name' in body
      - UK Dance (Raves)
        [e-mail]
        subscribe uk-dance <your name>


-o0 FTP sites 0o-

o soda.berkeley.edu
  /pub/sfraves
       - Alt.rave FAQ
            + Brian B's excellent rave FAQ

-o0 Mu*s 0o-

o MUD Info
  oinker.ucsb.edu /pub/mud
  [e-mail]
        - "mud list" in subject

o MUD List
  A list of future or cyber- oriented MUDs. MUDs go up and down a lot, so,
not my fault if you can't access them.

AbacusMUD           abacus.hgs.se           130.238.204.10   4080
BattleTech                                  129.72.2.48      3026
CyberWorld          elf.etsu.edu            192.43.19.199.27 3000
Global MUSH         lancelot.cif.rochester.edu               4207
Infinity                                    129.10.10.33     3000
LambdaMOO           parc.xerox.com                           8888
MariMUSE            pc2.pc.maricopa.edu     140.198.16.12    4228
MediaMOO            purple-crayon.media.mit.edu              8888
MicroMUSE           michael.ai.mit.edu      18.43.0.177

SciFiMUSH           zaphod.cs.uwindsor.ca   137.207.224.3    1972
SpaceMadness        riemann.math.okstate.edu 139.78.1.15     6250
StarFireMUSE        agronomy.auburn.edu     131.204.60.2     4201
Star Raiders        ub.d.umn.edu            131.212.32.6     2000
TrekMUSE            nebula.lib.vt.edu       128.173.7.183    1701
TrippyMUSH                                  128.153.16.13    7567
Virtual Realities   coyote.wustl.edu        128.252.136.100  3019


             -o0 Game Servers, Etc 0o-

o Backgammon Servers   telnet ouzo.rog.rwth-aachen.de 8765
       - Backgammon! (Login: guest)

o Chess Server   telnet to 129.15.10.21 5000
       - Play/watch real-time chess w/ human opponents.
       - Type 'help' for help

o Game Server  telnet castor.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
       - a myriad online games.  (Login: GAMES)

o GO Server             telnet hellspark.wharton.upenn.edu 6969
       - Ancient Chinese Secret. Now on the Internet!

o Iowa Politcl. Stk Mkt telnet ipsm.biz.uiowa.edu
       - Buy & sell shares in political candidates.
         (Non profit research proj)

o The Oracle
       - mail [e-mail]  w/ subject: help
       - The Usenet Oracle answers all your questions!

o Scrabble              telnet phoenix.aps.muohio.edu 7777
       - The popular Milton Bradley board game. (unable to connect)

  ___


-=- 06.Offline Interests
         o Magazines
         o Bibliography


-=- 06.Offline Interests
------------------------------------------------------
-=- 06.1.Magazines    |
-----------------------

aXcess
PO Box -----
San Deigo, CA 920??
       -"Music, Cyberculture, Style" professes the banner.
        I give them high marks for the music and
        cyberculture, and low marks for the Style
        and the definate Southern California centricity
        of the articles. But this *was* the first issue
       -$4 an issue, $?? for 6 issues.

Boardwatch
Black Ice
Body Art

bOING bOING
PO Box 18432
Boulder, CO   80308
       -cyberpunk zine. Not as glossy as the others that
        have recently debuted, but who needs all those
        pretty pictures anyway.
       -$4 an issue, $14 for 4 issues

Communications of the ACM
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
Cryonics Magazine
CyberEdge Journal
Cybertek
Disco Family Plan
Edge Detector

EFF Effector
         Membership Coordinator
         Electronic Frontier Foundation
         1001 G Street, N.W.
         Suite 950 East
         Washington, DC  20001  USA

Membership rates:
            $20.00 (student or low income membership)
            $40.00 (regular membership)

        -the print magazine of the Electronic Frontier
         Foundation. A bible of constitutional thought and
         action regarding the online world.
        -A $40 membership will merit you a subscription.
         Join yesterday! (Backdate your check =)

EXTROPY: The Journal of Trans-humanist Thought
PO Box 57306
Los Angeles, CA 90057-0306
        -There are also a few Mailing lists and USENET
          groups that follow this subject. Check those out
          before checking out this magazine.
        -$9 two issues (one year)

FactSheet-Five
Seth Friedman
PO Box 170099
San Francisco CA  94117-0099
       -independently-oriented reviewers of the
        zine culture. It was gone, but now it's back.
       -1 issue $4, 6 issues $20 (or more)

FAD Magazine
Fluxu8
Freakbeat
Full Disclosure
Future Sex
Hack-Tic
The HardCore
Interference on the Brain Screen

Internet Business Journal
E-mail: [e-mail]
phone: [phone].
$149 ($179 Canadian) for a one year (6 issue plus six supplements)

Internet World
E-mail: [e-mail].
Phone: (800)-MECKLER. [Subscription price?]

Intertek
Interzone
Iron Feather Journal
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine
The Journal of Complex Systems
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

Matrix News
E-mail: [e-mail]
Published in online and paper editions.
Online edition is $25 for 12 monthly issues ($15 for students.)

Mondo 2000
PO Box 10171
Berkeley, CA    94709
415.845.9018 (phone)
415.649.9630 (fax)
[e-mail]
[e-mail]
       -your guide to all things cyberpunk and some things
        not. The Original magazine to document this
        virutal culture, but, unless they change for the
        next issue, not the best.
       -$24 for 5 issues (published quarterly, maybe)

Nootropic News

Online Access
E-mail: [e-mail]
Subscription is $19.80 for 8 issues

Pixel:  The Magazine of Scientific Visualization
Pixel Vision
Robot Experimenter
Science Fiction Eye
Science Fiction Studies
Sector 9737
Sound Choice
Audio Evolution network
SOUND News and Arts
TAP
Technology Works
Territories

2600
PO Box 752
Middle Island, NY   11953-0752
516.751.2600 (office)
516.751.2608 (fax)
[e-mail]
       -the famous hacker's zine. Still ticking.
       -subscriptions are $21 for 4 issues (published
        quarterly)
       -back issues are $25 / year

Urb Magazine
US RAVE Magazine
Verbum:  The Journal of Personal Computer Aesthetics
Virus 23
Whole Earth Review

WIRED
[e-mail]
         -The magazine is hot! and made quite a buzz
          across the internet for weeks after it debuted
         -now it is publishing 12 months a year
         -$4 an issue. $29.95 / year.

Zine Exchange

-=- 06.2.Bibliography  |
------------------------

???     American Flagg - comic
        Cyberpunk - comic
        Dirty Pair - comic
        Judge Dredd - comic
        Vertigo Series - DC comics

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice.  Diary of 15 year-old girl in the drug world
          - Computers:  Crimes, Clues, and Controls.  Hacking

Abraham, Ralph - A Visiual Introduction to Dynamical Systems Theory
               - The Visual Mathematics Library

Acker, Kathy - Blood and Guts in High School (fiction)
             - Don Quixote, which was a dream (fiction)
             - Empire of the Senseless (fiction)
             - Great Expectations (fiction)
             - The Adult Life of Toulouse-Lautrec
             - In Memoriam to Identity

Adams, Douglas - The Meaning of Liff (fiction)
               - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (fiction)
               - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (fiction)
               - Life, the Universe, and Everything (fiction)
               - So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish (fiction)
               - Mostly Harmless (fiction)
               - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (fiction)
               - The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul (fiction)

Aldiss, Brian Wilson - Barefoot in the Head (fiction)
                     - Enemies of the System (fiction)

Algren, Nelson - Man with the Golden Arm (fiction)

Army, U.S. - Computer-Related Crime

Artaud, Antonin - The Peyote Dance

Ashby, W. Ross - An Introduction to Cybernetics

Asimov, Isaac - The Robot Novels
              - Robots:  Machines in Man's Image
              - The Foundation Series

Austakalnis, Steve & David Blatner - Silicon Mirage.  Vr

Bachman, Richard - The Running Man (fiction)

Ballard, J. G. - The Atrocity Exhibition (Re/Search publication)
               - Crash (fiction)
               - Concrete Island
               - High rise

Barlow, John Perry - Everything We Know is Wrong (forthcoming)

Barnes, Steven - Gorgon Child (fiction)
               - Streetlethal (fiction)

Barrow, John and Frank Tipler - The Anthropic Cosmological Principle

Barry, Judith - Public Fantasy.  PoMo

Bass, Thomas - The Eudaemonic Pie.  Chaos

Bateson, Gregory - Steps to an Ecology of Mind
                 - Mind and Nature:  Necessary Unity

Baudrillard, Jean - The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture
                  - Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America (ed.)
                  - The Ecstacy of Communication
                  - America
                  - Simulations
                  - In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities
                  - Seduction
                  - Cool Memories

Bear, Greg - Blood Music (fiction)
           - Eon (fiction)
           - Eternity (fiction; sequel to Eon)
           - Beyond Heaven's River (fiction)
           - Forge of God (fiction)
           - Great Sky River (fiction)
           - Psychlone (fiction)
           - Strength of Stones (fiction)
           - The Wind Froma  Burning Woman (fiction)

Beck, Jerome, & Rosenbaum, Marsha - Pursuit of Ecstacy: The MDMA Experience

Bell, Madison Smartt - The Washington Square Ensemble
                     - Waiting for the End of the World

Belsito, Peter - HardCore California
               - Notes from the Pop Underground

Benedikt, Michael - Cyberspace: First Steps
                       + the canonical cyberspace resource.

Benford, Gregory - Against Infinity

Bernal, J. D. - The World, the Flesh, and the Devil

Bester, Alfred - Computer Connection (fiction)
               - Golem 100 (fiction)
               - The Demolished Man (fiction)
               - The Stars My Destination (fiction)

Betanacourt, G. - Johnny Zed (fiction)

Bethke, Bruce - Cyberpunk (fiction)
              - Elimination Round (fiction)

Bey, Hakim - T.A.Z.

Black, Bob - The Abolition of Work and Other Essays
           - Friendly Fire
           - Rants and Mineral Tracts (with Adam Parfrey, eds.)

Blake, William - The Mariage of Heaven and Hell

Blankenship, Loyd (Steve Jackson Games) - GURPS Cyberpunk RPG

Bloombecker, Buck - Spectacular Computer Crimes

Blumlein, Michael - The Movement of Mountains (fiction)

Bova, Ben - Exiled from Earth (fiction)

Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451 (fiction)

Brecher, Edward M. (Consumer's Union) - Guide to Licit and Illicit Drugs

Breton, Andre - What is Surrealism?  Selected Writings
              - Manuifestos of Surrealism

Brin, David -Earth (fiction)

Brockman, John (ed) - Speculations:  Reality Club 1
                    - Doing Science:  Reality Club 2
                    - Ways of Knowing:  Reality Club 3

Brunner, John - The Shockwave Rider (fiction)
              - Stand on Zanzibar (fiction)
              - The Jagged Orbihat Never Came Down (fiction)

Budrys, Algis - Michaelmas (fiction)

Burger, Ralf - COmputer Viruses:  A High Tech Disease

Burgess, Anthony - A Clockwork Orange (fiction)
                 - The End of the World News: An Entertainment.

Burroughs, William S. - Interzone (fiction)
                      - Naked Lunch (fiction)
                      - Nova Express (fiction)
                      - The Soft Machine (fiction)
                      - Ticket That Exploded (fiction)
                      - The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead (fiction)
                      - The Third Mind
                      - The Yage Letters
                      - The Adding Machine:  Selected Essays
                      - The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
                      - The Western Lands
                      - Cities of the Red Night

Butler, Jack - Nightshade (fiction)

Cadigan, Pat - MindPlayers (fiction)
             - Indigo (fiction)
             - Patterns (fiction)
             - Synners (fiction)

Card, Orson Scott - Ender's Game (fiction)


Carlisle, Anne - Liquid Sky (fiction)

Chambers, Iain - Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience (fiction)

Chesebro, James w. and Donald g. Bonsall - Computer-mediated
Communication:
      human relationships in a computerized world

Churchland, Patricia - Neurophilosophy:...Unified Science of the Mind/Brain

Consumer Reports - Complete Drug Reference

Cornwall, Hugo - Datatheft.  Hacking
               - Hacker's Handbook III.  Hacking.

Crick, Francis - Life Itself:  It's Origin and Nature

Cross, Ronald Anthony - Prisoners of Paradise (fiction)

Crowley, Aleister - Diary of a Drug Fiend
                  - Magick Without Tears

Davies, Paul - The Accidental Universe

Davis, Douglas - Art and the Future

Dean, Ward - Smart Drugs & Nutrients.  Nootropics, smart drugs

Deken, Joseph - Computer Images:  State of the Art

Delany, Paul and George Landlow (eds) - Hypermedia & Literary Studies

Delany, Samuel - Dahlgren (fiction)
               - Babel 17 (fiction)
               - Nova (fiction)
               - The Edge of Space:  Three Original Novellas of SF

Delgado, Jose - Physical Control of the Mind:  Towards Psychocivilized

DeLillo, Don - White Noise (fiction)

Denning, Peter J. (ed. ACM) - Computers Under Attack

Denton, Bradley - Wrack'n'Roll (fiction)

de Quincy, Thomas - Confessions of an English Opium Eater

Derrida, Jacques - Of Grammatology
                 - Speech and Phenomena
                 - Writing and Difference

Dick, Philip K. - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
                       (Blade Runner)(fiction)
                - Flow My Tears the Policeman Said (fiction)
                - Vulcan's Hammer (fiction)
                - Ubik (fiction)
                - A Scanner Darkley (fiction)

Dickson, Gordon - The R-Master (fiction)

Dobbs, Bob - Book of the SubGenius

Dozois, Gardner - Slow Dancing Through Time (fiction)

Drexler, Eric - Engines of Creation. Nanotechnology
              - Unbounding the Future:  The Nanotechnology Revolution

Duchamp, Marcel - The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp

Eco, Umberto - Foucault's Pendulum (historical fiction)
             - Travels in Hyper Reality:  Essays

Effinger, George Alec - A Fire in the Sun (fiction)
                      - When Gravity Fails (fiction)
                      - The Exile Kiss (fiction)

Eisner, Bruce - Ecstacy: The MDMA Story

Em, David - The Art of David Em:  100 Computer Paintings

Farren, Mick - The Long Orbit (fiction)

Faust, Clifford - The Company Man (fiction)
                - A Death of Honor (fiction)

Feynman, Richard - QED:  The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Fjermedal, Grant - The Tomorrow Makers (fiction)

Foley, James et al - Computer Graphics:  Principles and Practice

Ford, John - Web of Angels (fiction)

Forester, Tom - Computer Ethics.  Hacking, viruses, etc

Foster, Alan Dean - Cyber Way (fiction)

Friedman, David - The Machinery of Freedmon.  Anarchy

Furst, Stevyn - Hallucinogens and Culture

Gerrold, David - When Harlie Was One

Gibson, William - Burning Chrome (fiction)
                - Count Zero (fiction)
                - The Difference Engine (with Bruce Sterling)(fiction)
                - Mona Lisa Overdrive (fiction)
                - Neuromancer (fiction)
                - Virtual Light (fiction)
                - Agrippa:  A Book of the Dead (poem: multimedia)

Gleick, James - Chaos:  The Making of a New Science

Goodman, Cynthia - Digital Visions:  COmputers and Art

Gracie & Zarkov - Notes from Underground.  Drugs

Griffith, Winter - Complete Guide to Prescription and
                         Nonprescription Drugs

Grof, Stanislov - The Human Encounter with Death. Death, Psychology, LSD
                - Realms of the Human Unconscious.  LSD, Subconscious.

Gunderloy, Mike and Cari Goldberg Janice - Zine Culture

Gyson, Brion and Terry Wilson - Here to Go: Planet 101

Hafner, Katie with John Markoff - Cyberpunk:  Outlaws and Hackers...Frontier

Hamit, Francis &  Wes Thomas - Virtual Reality: Adventures in Cyberspace

Harasim, Linda, ed. - Global Networks: computers and international
communication

Harraway, Donna - Simians, Cyborgs & ...

Harrison, Harry - Make Room! Make Room! (fiction)

Harry, M. - Computer Underground:  Hacking, Piracy, Phreaking, & ...Crime

Hattori, Katura - What's Virtual Reality?

Hawke, Simon - Psychodrome (fiction)

Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time

Heinlein, Robert - The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (fiction)
                 - Notebooks of Lazarus Long (fiction)
                 - Stranger in a Strange Land (fiction)
                 - Time Enough for Love (fiction)
                 - not to mention all the others he wrote

Helsel, Sandra & Judith Roth - Virtual Reality: Practice, Theory, & Promise

Herbert, Nick - Faster Than Light:  Superluminal Loopholes in Physics
              - Quantum Reality:  Beyond the New Physics

Herer, Jack - Hemp & Marijuana Conspiracy:  The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Hoffman, Abbie - Steal This Book
               - Steal This Urine Test:  Fighting Drug Hysteria
               - Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture
               - Best of Abbie Hoffman

Hofmann, Albert - Insight/Outlook
                - LSD:  My Problem Child

Hofstadter, Douglas R. - The Mind's I:  Reflections on Self & Soul

Holmes, Thomas - Electronic and Experimental Music

Home, Stewart - The Assault on Culture

Hooper, Judith - Would the Buddha Wear A Walkman?  Catalogue of Consciousness

Hoy, ??? - Loompanics Greatest Hits

Hoyle, Fred and Chandra Wickramasinghe - Living Comets

Hutchison, Michael - Mega-brain.  Consciousness, Brain growth, stimulation

Huxley, Aldous - Brave New World (fiction)
               - Brave New World Revisited (fiction)
               - The Doors of Perception.  Mescaline encounters
               - Ends and Means.  Nature of ideals and realization
               - Heaven and Hell
               - Island (fiction)
               - Moksha.  Hallucinogens, religious experiences, visions
               - Perennial Philosophy.  Philosophy and religion

Huyssen, Andreas - After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture,
Postmodern

Jacobsen, Linda (ed) - Cyberarts:  Exploring art and technology

Jahn, robert and Brenda Dunne - Margins of Reality..Consciousnes....

Jeter, K. W. - Death Arms (fiction)
             - Dr. Adder (fiction)
             - Farewell Horizontal (fiction)
             - Infernal Devices (fiction)
             - The Glass hammer (fiction)

Kadrey, Richard - Metrophage (fiction)

Kawaguchi, Yoichiro - Growth Metamorphogenesis.  Computer art

Kehoe, Brendan - Zen and the Art of the Internet

Kerouac, Jack - On the Road

Kelly, James Patrick - Look Into the Sun (fiction)

Kelly, Kevin - SIGNAL:  Communications Tools of the Information Age

Kesey, Ken - Sometimes a Great Notion.  Autobiography
           - Further Inquiry.  Tales of the Merry Pranksters

Key, William Bryan - Subliminal Seduction
                   - Media Sexploitation
                   - The Clam-Plate Orgy

Kowalski, Roy - The Science of Virtual Reality and Virtual Environments

Kroker, Arthur, and David Cook - The Postmodern Scene

Krol, Ed - The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog

Krueger, Myron W. - Artificial Reality
                  - Artificial Reality II

Kunetka, James - Nature's End (fiction)

Lacan, Jacques - Television

Laidlaw, Marc - Dad's Nuke (fiction)
              - Neon Lotus (fiction)

Landreth, Bill - Out of the Inner Circle.  Hacking

Langston, Christopher - Artificial Life 1
                      - Artificial Life 2

LaQueye Tracey and Jeanne Ryer - The Internet Companion

Laurel, Brenda - The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design
               - Computers as Theatre

Leary, Timothy - Changing My Mind, Among Others
               - Flashbacks
               - Info Psychology
               - Neuropolitiques
               - Politics of Ecstacy
               - Psychedelic Experience

LeGuin, Ursula - Always Coming Home (fiction)

Lee, Marvin - Acid Dreams:  CIA, LSD, and the Sixties

Lem, Stanislaw - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (fiction)
               - Solaris
               - The Futuroligcal Congress
               - The Cyberiad
               - One Human Minute
               - Fiasco
               - A Perfect Vacuum
               - Imaginary Magnitude

Lennon, John - Lost Prophetic Writings

Levy, Steven - Hackers.  Origins of hackers

Lewit, S. N. - Cyberstealth (fiction)
             - Dancing Vac (fiction)

Leyner, Mark - My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist (fiction)
             - American Made (fiction)
             - I Was an Infinitely Hot and Dense Dot (fiction)

Lilly, John - Center of the Cyclone:  An Autobiography of Inner Space
            - The Deep Self:  Profound Relaxation....Isolation Tank
            - Programming and Meta-programming the Human Biocomputer
            - Simulations of God:  The Science of Belief
            - The Dyadic Cyclone:  Autobiography of a Couple
            - The Scientist:  A Metaphysical Autobiography
            - John Lilly, so far...

Lippard, Lucy R. - Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory

Lovecock, James - Gaia:  A New Look at Life on Earth

Lucky, Robert (executive director of bell labs)
        - silicon dreams: information, man, and machine.  1992
               + how information theory shapes the world of computers.

Ludlow, ??? - Hasheesh eater:  The Life of Pythagorean.  published in 157!

Lyotard, Jean-Francois - The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Lyttle, ??? - Psychedelic Monographs and Essays Volumes #1-5

Maddox, Tom - Halo (fiction)

Malacalypse the Younger - The Principia Discordia.

Mandlebrot, Benoit - The Fractal Geometry of Nature

Marcus, Greil - Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century

Mason, Lisa - Arachne (fiction)

McAfee, John - Computer Viruses, Worms....And Other Threats to your System

McAffrey, Larry - Storming the Reality Studio.  Cyberpunk, postmodern fiction
                - Across the Wounded Galaxies

McDonald, Ian - Out on Blue Six (fiction)

McHale, Brian - Postmodern Fiction

McKenna, Dennis - The Invisible Landscape

McKenna, Terence - The Archaic Revival
                 - Food of the Gods
                 - True Hallucinations

McLellan, H. - Virtual Reality:  A Selected Bibliography

McLuhan, Marshall - Verbi-Voco-Visual Explorations
                  - Through the Vanishing Point:  Space in Poetry & Painting
                  - >>From Cliche to Archetype
                  - Culture is our Business
                  - Take Today:  The Executve as Drop-Out
                  - The City as Classroom:  Understanding Media & Language
                  - Laws of Media:  The New Science
                  - The Global Village:  TransformAtions in World Life...

Milan, Victor - The Cybernetic Samurai (fiction)
              - The Cybernetic Shogun (fiction)

Minsky, Marvin - Society of Mind
               - Robotics
               - The Turing Option

Misha - Red Spider, White Web (fiction)

Mondo 2000 - A User's Guide to the New Edge

Moorcock, Michael - The Cornelious chronicles (fiction)

Moravec, Hans - Mind Children

Morgan, Ted - Literary Outlaw:  Life & Times of William S. Burroughs

Murphy, Pat - The Falling Woman (fiction)

Myers, Norman - Gaia:  An Atlas of Planet Management

Nelson, Theodor - Cumpter Lib/Dream Machines
                - Literary Machines

Orwell, George - 1984 (fiction)

Otomo, Katsuhiro - Akira

Pagels, Heinz - The Cosmic Code:  Quantum Physics As Language of Nature

Palmer, Thomas - Dream Science (fiction)

Parker, Don - Fighting Computer Crime

Parsegian, V. Lawrence - This Cybernetic World.  Cybernetics

Parfrey, Adam - Apocalypse Culture. Pomo/industrialism
              - Rants and Incendiary Tracts

Pearson, Durk and Sandy Shaw - Life Extension: Practical Scientific Approach
                             - Life Extension Companion

Peitgen, Heinz-Otto and Peter Richter - The Beauty of Fractals

Pelton, Ross - Mind Food & Smart Pills.  Neuropharmacology

Penley, Constance & Andrew Ross (eds.) - Technoculture

Perry, Paul - On the Bus.  Story of Ken Kesey and Merry Pranksters
            - Haight-Ashbury: A History

Pfohl, Stephen - Death at the Parasite Cafe

Pickover, Clifford - Computers and the Imagination

Pirsig, Robert - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Platt, Charles - The Silicon Man

Pohl, Frederick - Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (fiction)
                - Gateway (fiction)
                - Heechee Rendezvous (fiction)
                - Man Plus (fiction)
                - The Annals of the Heechee (fiction)

Porush, David - The Soft Machine: Cybernetic Fiction

Potter, Beverly - Way of the Ronin.  Career, vocation changes

Powell, William - The Anarchists Cookbook.  Drug abuse, explosives, firearms

Pynchon, Thomas - Crying of Lot 49 (fiction)
                - Gravity's Rainbow (fiction)
                - V (fiction)
                - Vineland (fiction)

Quarterman, John S. - The Matrix.  Computer Networks

Rand, Ayn - For the New Intellectual.  Philosophy

Ratsch, ??? - Gateway to Inner Space

Regis, Ed - Great Mambo Chicken & the Transhuman Condition

Re/Search - Industrial Culture Handbook.  Industrial musicians profiles
          - Modern Primitives
          - PRANKS!
          - Angry Women

Rheingold, Howard - Virtual Reality. Cybernetics, virtual reality, simulation
                  - Virtual Communities

Rivlin, Robert - The Algorithmic Image:  Graphic Images of the Computer Age

Roberts, Steven - Computing Across America

Robinson, Spider - Mindkiller: A Novel of the Near Future (fiction)

Ronell, Avital - The Telephone Book:  Technology, Schizophrenia, ....
               - Crack Wars:  Literature, Addiction, Mania

Roszak, Theodore - The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers...

Rucker, Rudy - Software (fiction)
             - Wetware (fiction)
             - The Secret of Life (fiction)
             - Masters of Space and Time (fiction)
             - Spacetime Donuts (fiction)
             - The 5th Franz Kafka (fiction)
             - White Light (fiction)
             - Mind Tools: The 5 Levels of Mathematical Reality
             - The Fourth Dimension:  A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
             - Transreal! (fiction)
             - Semiotext(e) (ed. w/ Robert A. Wilson, Peter Wilson)
             - M2k:  User's Guide to the New Edge (ed. w/ RU Sirius et al)

Ruelle, David - Chance and Chaos

Russo, Richard Paul - Inner Eclipse (fiction)
                    - Subterranean Gallery (fiction)
                    - Destroying Angel (fiction)

Ryan, Thomas - The Adolescence of PI (fiction)

Sarfatti, Jack - Space-Time and Beyond

Schafer, Murray - The Tuning of the World.  Electronic Music

Schultes, Richard Evans - Plants of the Gods:  Origins of Hallucinogens

Schodt, Frederik - Inside the Robot Kingdom:  ...Coming Robotopia

Sheldrake, Robert - A New Science of Life:....Formative Causation
                  - The Rebirth of Nature:  Greening of Science and God
                  - The Presence of the Past:  Morphic Resonance ....

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (fiction)

Sherman, Barry - Glimpses of Heaven, Visions of Hell.  VR

Shiner, Lewis - Frontera (fiction)
              - Deserted Cities of the Heart (fiction)
              - Slam (fiction)

Shirley, John - Eclipse (fiction)
              - Eclipse Corona (fiction)
              - Eclipse Penumbra (fiction)
              - Total Eclipse (fiction)
              - City Come A'Walkin' (fiction)
              - Heatseeker (fiction)
              - Transmaniacon (fiction)
              - A Splendid Chaos (fiction)

Shulgin, Ann and Alexander - PIKHAL:  A Chemical Love Story
                           - The Controlled Substance Act

Sieber, Ulrich - International Handbook on Computer Crime

Sirius, R.U. & Rudy Rucker (eds) - A User's Guide to the New Edge

Smith, Thomas - Industrial Light & Magic:  The Art of Special Effects

Solomonides, Tony and Les Levidow - Compulsive Technology...

Spinrad, Norman - Agent of Chaos (fiction)
                - Little Heroes (fiction)
                - Other Americas (fiction)
                - Streetman (fiction)
                - Bug Jack Barron (fiction)

Stafford, Peter - Psychedelics Encyclopedia

Stang, Ivan - High Weirdness By Mail. Fringes of culture sources
            - Three-Fisted Tales of Bob.  Subgenius

Starks, ??? - Cocaine Fiends and Reefer Madness.  Drugs on film

Stelarc - Obsolete Body Suspensions

Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash (fiction)

Sterling, Bruce - Artificial Kid (fiction)
                - Crystal Express (fiction)
                - Difference Engine (with William Gibson)
                - Involution Ocean (fiction)
                - Islands in the Net (fiction)
                - Mirrorshades:  A Cyberpunk Anthology (editor)
                - Schismatrix (fiction)
                - The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder..Frontier
                - Globalhead (fiction)

Stevens, Jay - Storming Heaven:  LSD & the American Dream

Stoll, Clifford - The Cuckoo's Egg.  Hacking

Sturgeon, Theodore - More Than Human (fiction)

Swanwick, Michael - Vacuum Flowers (fiction)
                  - In the Drift (fiction)
                  - Stations of the Tide (fiction)

Swezey, ??? - AMOK Dispatch

Tamm, Eric - Brian Eno:  His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound

Thom, Rene - Semiophysics:  A Sketch

Thompson, Hunter S. - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
                    - The Great Shark Hunt:  Gonzo Papers 1
                    - Generation of Swine:  Gonzo Papers 2
                    - Songs of the Doomed:  Gonzo Papers 3

Todd, Stephen and William Latham - Evolutionary Art and Computers

Toffler, Alvin - Future Shock.  Social Change
               - The Third Wave.  Social Change
               - War- Anti-War

Turkle, Sherry - The Second Self: Computers & the Human Spirit

2030, F.M. - Upwingers
           - Are You A Transhuman?

Tzara, Tristan - Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampistries

Vallee, Jacques - The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist

Varley, John - The Ophiuchi Hotline (fiction)
             - Millenium (fiction)

Vinge, Vernor - Marooned Across Real-time (fiction)
              - True Names and Other Dangers (fiction)
              - Threats and Other Promises (fiction)
              - The Peace War (fiction)

Vollman, William - You Bright and Risen Angels (fiction)

Wade, ??? - Anarchist's Guide to the BBS

Warhol, Andy - Diaries
             - POPism: The Warhol 60's

Weil, Andrew - Marriage of Sun & Moon:  Quest for Unity in Consciousness
             - Natural Mind: Investigation of Drugs and Higher Consciousness
             - Chocoloate to Morphine:  Understanding Mind-Active Drugs

Wells, H.G. - The Island of Dr. Moreau

Whole Earth Catalog - Essential Whole Earth Catalog
                    - The Fringes of Reason
                    - Signal, Communications for the Information Age
                    - Software Catalog
                    - Whole Earth Access Mail Order Catalog

Wiener, Norbert - Cybernetics: Control & Communication in Animal and Machine
                - The Human Use of Human Beings

Williams, Walter Jon - Angel Station (fiction)
                     - Facets (fiction)
                     - Hardwired (fiction)
                     - Solips System (fiction)
                     - Voice of the Whirlwind (fiction)

Wilson, Robert Anton - Cosmic Trigger
                     - Cosmic Trigger 2
                     - Historical Illuminatus Chronicles (fiction)
                                The Earth Will Shake
                                Nature's God
                                The Widow's Son
                     - Illuminati Papers
                     - The Illuminatus! Trilogy (fiction)
                     - Ishtar Rising
                     - Masks of the Illuminati (fiction)
                     - New Inquisition
                     - Prometheus Rising
                     - Quantum Psychology
                     - Right Where You are Sitting Now
                     - Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy (fiction)
                     - Sex & Drugs, A Journey Beyond Limits
                     - The Earth Will Shake (fiction)
                     - The Widow's Son (fiction)
                     - The Book of the Breast
                     - Natural Law, or Don't put a Rubber on your Willy
                     - Wilhelm Reich in Hell
                     - Coincidence:  A Head Test

Windling, Terri (editor) - Borderlands (fiction)
                         - Bordertown (fiction)

Wolfe, Tom - Electrik Kool-Aid Acid Test. Kesey & Pranksters & Haight-Ashbury

Wolfram, Stephen - Mathematica:  System for Doing Mathematics by Computer

Womack, Jack - Ambient (fiction)
               Terraplane (fiction)
               Heathern (fiction)
               Elvissey (fiction)

Wright, Robert - Three Scientists and Their Gods.  Information age

Zahn, Timothy - Cobra (fiction)
              - Cobra Bargain (fiction)
              - Cobra Strike (fiction)



-=- 07.Lexicon of Virtual Culture
           o The dictionary
           o Who's who

-=- 07.Lexicon of Virtual Culture
------------------------------------------------------
-=- 07.1.The dictionary   |
---------------------------

Virtual Culture -- >>From A to Z

ADSL (Asynchronous Digital Subscriber Loop) - The transmission method
likely to be used to send movies, tv shows and sports - at the viewers
request - over existing telephone lines right to your television. Look for
this to be available and affordable in the next two years. This is the
main contender to ISDN, the winner will provide the link between 50
channels and 500 channels, 50,000 channels or (hopefully) more.

Agrippa: A Book of the Dead - A collaboration between author William
Gibson, publisher Kevin Begos Jr., and artist Dennis Ashbaugh. This
art-work contains engravings by Ashbaugh which appear or disappear in
light and an on-disk semi-autobiographical poem by William Gibson  which
is unreadable after having been read once.  Agrippa is notable because in
many respects it blurs the lines concerning what art is, and adds fuel to
the fire on issues of property rights and intellectual property.  A
highlight of 1992 was the release of Gibson's poem on to the net.

Artificial Life - man-made systems that exhibit characteristics associated
with the concept of "life".

Artificial Reality - similar to virtual reality, but more interactive,
with the participant being part of, not just experiencing, the artificial
environment.

Barlow, John Perry - A drummer for the Grateful Dead and co-founder of the
EFF. Now a net.denizen who speaks often on virtual culture and cyberspace
sociology and technology.

BBSes - electronic Bulletin Board Systems.  Begun in the late 70's, a form
of virtual community existing in cyberspace where participants (usually
using aliases) may send and receive public and private messages to each
other on any topic imaginable, transfer software (copyrighted and/or
public domain), play on-line games, etc.  There is the "over-ground" BBS
world where aliases are less common and illegal activities are avoided in
discussion, and the computer underground where illegal activities and
discussions are very common, members use aliases, and illegal information
and/or software is exchanged.

Boxing - A variety of electronic devices used to aid in phreaking. The
original was the blue box, used from the mid 60's to the mid 80's, which
allowed long distance phone calls to be made for free. A variety of other
similar instruments accomplishing different tasks have been developed,
some purely comical, some quite practical.

Chaos - Chaos is a state that garners a lot of respect in cyberculture, to
the point of being a techno-pagan religion. Many people are self-described
Chaoticians.

Chaos Theory - A field of science revolving around simplistic equations
involving a large number of variables. Gave rise to fractals, a form of
cyberdelic art. For further info on the subject, James Gleick's "Chaos:
Making a New Science" is suggested.

C0dez Doodz - Essentially a phreaker's version of pirates. People who seek
out telco codes to be used to gain long distance (ld) telephone calls
without paying for them. Scourge of the computer underground.

Communitek - an informational technology that provides the potential for a
community to develop in cyberspace. For example, within the net, IRC and
elists are two communiteks.

Computer Underground - "A group organized in secrecy, hidden behind
aliases, to promote the free exchange of information regarding anything
and everything including, but not limited to: computers, telephones,
radios, chemicals, and ideas." (Thanx to The Butler for this definition)
The mainstay of communication for the computer underground is cyberspace,
more specifically BBSes. The computer underground is composed of hackers,
phreakers, pirates, anarchists, and other cyberpunks.

Cyber- - A prefix taken from cybernetics generally used in popular culture
to mean anything that is technologically oriented.

Cyberculture - Often used in the media to denote aspects of "life as a
cyberpunk." Yet if we are to follow strict meaning, cyberculture is more
accurately defined as an information-based culture.

Cyberdeck - Term originated by William Gibson to refer to a computer used
by deck cowboys that can connect to the matrix.

Cyberdelic - "Cyber-art".  Examples include fractals, computer-generated
pictures and/or music, virtual worlds, etc. (sidebar - fractal pict)

Cybernetics - The study of communication systems in living organisms and
machines, the mathematical analysis of the flow of information.

Cyberpunk - Begun as a literary movement in the 80's, an off-shoot of
normal science fiction. Unique in that it generally occurs in the present
or not so distant future, the characters are often considered "punks"
(social deviants) and technology, (the cyber aspect), is prominent.
"Neuromancer" by William Gibson, published in 1984, is considered by most
to be the "bible" of cyberpunk.  Another prominent author is Bruce
Sterling, editor of another worthy cyberpunk collection, "Mirrorshades".
Other examples of cyberpunk include Max Headroom (TV show) and BladeRunner
(movie). Cyberpunk is special in that it has evolved from a purely
literary movement to a realistic subculture. Many "techno-punks" (i.e.,
hackers) are considered cyberpunks. Other contributing factors to the
cyberpunk subculture include:  virtual reality, hallucinogenic and
nootropic drugs, and industrial and punk music. For an in-depth, detailed
look at cyberpunk fiction and cyberpunk culture, "Storming the Reality
Studio," ed. by Larry McCaffery is suggested.

Cyberspace - "The electronic frontier." A completely virtual environment:
the sum of all BBSes, computer networks, and other virtual communities.
Unique in that it is constantly being changed, exists only virtually, can
be practically infinite in "size", communication occurs instantaneously
world-wide - physical location is completely irrelevant most of the time.
Some include video and telephone transmissions as part of cyberspace.

Cypherpunks - net.folks who have evolved from hacking to encryption and
concern with creating multiple anonymous identities.

Deck Cowboys - Futuristic, some say fantasy, version of a computer hacker
or a modern-day cyberpunk.

Electronic Frontier Foundation - (EFF). Organization founded by Mitch
Kapor (of Lotus fame) and John Perry Barlow (writer and Grateful Dead
songwriter) to establish laws for cyberspace and apply the constitution to
virtual communities. The EFF has recently morphed into a strong lobbying
force in Washington D.C..

Elist (email-lists) - An electronic discussion group that anyone with an
email address can subscribe to. Email addresses for the elist members are
stored on a single computer. When you send email to that machine, it will
automatically bounce your letter to every other subscriber. Thousands of
these elists, covering almost every topic, exist on the Internet for your
reading pleasure and more are materializing weekly.

Ezine - An net version of the small press magazine (known as a zine)
culture. Usually ezines exist only on the net, but more and more
paper-zines are distributing an electronic version as well. (sidebar, some
zines to watch for)

F2F - face to face meeting (also FTF)

Flame - Disagreement (hell, full fledged war sometimes) occurring in
cyberspace. Common on Usenet.

Fleshmeet - a F2F meeting. Often a party of some sort where people who
have met previously on the net get together.

Fractals - Images created using chaos theory. A mish-mash of colors
presented in a pattern that repeats itself many times over.  A popular
type of fractal image is one created using the "Mandlebrot set".  Fractals
are considered cyberdelic art.

Gibson, William - Considered by most to be the "father" of cyberpunk,
along with Bruce Sterling. His works include the infamous "Neuromancer",
"Count Zero", "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (these 3 works are known as the sprawl
series), "The Difference Engine" with which he was co-author with Bruce
Sterling, and "Burning Chrome" a collection of short stories.  A recent
work of his is a poem in "Agrippa: A Book of the Dead".  Gibson says he
will no longer be writing the "classic"  cyberpunk novels he is famous
for.  His latest work is entitled "Virtual Light" is futuristic fiction
was released in August.

Global Village - Famous term coined by Marshall McLuhan, exemplified by
the net.

Gopher - A menu driven service useful for grep'ing info off the net. You
forgot your friend's email address, look here. Need to read the latest
issue of "Voices from the net" (An electronic text based zine or ezine),
look here. Searching for a file to read or software to download, use
Gopher. Over 1200 individual gopher sites exist and the number is growing
weekly.

Grep - search, or scan.

Grok - Word with roots in Shamanism that is akin to gnow. and implies a
thorough and complete holistic understanding. Popularized in Robert A.
Heinlein's _Stranger in a Strange Land_.

Hacker - 60's (1st) generation (orig. MIT):  one who tinkers with
software, electronics, computer hardware, etc.  80's (2nd) WarGames
generation:  one who enters computer systems without permission with
either malicious or non-malicious intent, to gain, alter, or destroy
information (labeled as crackers by the 60's generation).  90's (3rd)
generation:  often called cyberpunks, mostly non-malicious crackers
interested in information for the sake of information, and not hacking for
the sake of the hack - sometimes calling themselves "information
liberators", they have re-adopted more of the original hacker ethic of the
60's that mainly states "all information should be free", "access to
computers should be unlimited and total" and "promote decentralization".
This new, 3rd generation is commonly associated with the computer
underground, despite its mostly non-malicious intent.

Identity Hacking - The use of pseudo-anonymity or false accounts to
put ones self off as another person on the Internet. Not nice.

Infonomics - The idea of an economy based on information, which obviously
holds many different properties from our current state of the world.

Internet - A large and very popular world-wide computer network begun by
the Department of Defense in the 60's that connects educational
institutions, corporations, organizations, and military and government
installations around the globe. Some organizations exist that offer
Internet access to the general public for an hourly,monthly or yearly fee.
Suggested are places like the WELL, MindVox, Nyx (which is free of cost),
Netcom, etc.  Many Internet users partake in reading and contributing to
Usenet, playing MUDs, FTPing text files and programs free of charge at the
various FTP sites, and 'telnet'ing to other Internet sites. Because of its
accessibility at a relatively low cost, size (the largest computer network
in the world), connectivity, and infinite amounts of information, many
network users prefer the Internet to such services as CompuServe (often
called Compu$erve on the Internet) or Prodigy (which is more restricting
in its content). The Internet has something to offer for everyone. There
are many helpful books published about how to use the Internet, some are
available right on-line.  Once you gain access to the Internet, it is
suggested that you read the 'news.announce.newusers' and
'news.newusers.questions' and 'news.answers' newsgroups on Usenet.

IRC - Internet Relay Chat. Realtime communication forums between Internet
users all over the world.

ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network.  A communitek hopefully coming
soon to a house near you, basically it will greatly expand the potential
for information coming into your house, such as having 700 cable TV
channels, interactive realtime video-phones, and far off in the future
possible even realtime networked interactive 3d virtual reality.

Kapor, Mitch - One of EFF's founders (along with John Perry Barlow). He
started the Lotus software company and built it into one of the top 5
software companies in the world, then left to start the EFF. In addition
to working at the top of EFF ladder, he frequently writes stories for
magazines and newspapers, interviews on the TV and is often called to
testify before congressional hearings.

Knowbot - provides a uniform user interface to heterogeneous remote
information services. A predecesor to the Intelligent Agent.

Legion of Doom - (LoD). A legendary group of hackers from the computer
underground. When they disbanded, some members went on to form a computer
security firm (ComSec), Loyd Blankenship wrote GURPS Cyberpunk for Steve
Jackson Games and some ended up in jail from Operation Sundevil.

Matrix - Term coined by William Gibson that refers to the consensual
hallucination of cyberspace.

Meme - An "agent of communicative resonance," or more simply, "an
information virus."  Memetics is the study and theories behind the root
structures of information itself.

MindVox - A virtual community in cyberspace, also a BBS connected to the
Internet.  A nexus of the computer underground and cyberpunk and virtual
reality began by Phantom Access Technologies, former members of the Legion
of Doom. See also the WELL.

Mirrorshades - A very important collection of cyberpunk fiction by various
authors, most of whom are labeled as the mirrorshades group. This book is
edited by Bruce Sterling and should be available in most bookstores.

Mirrorshades Group - Original collection of cyberpunk authors which
includes William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Tom Maddox, Lewis Shiner, John
Shirley, SF Eye magazine editor Steve Brown, Rudy Rucker, Pat Cadigan, and
others.

Mondo 2000 - Very popular cyberpunk and new edge magazine. Recently
challenged by a new magazine, WIRED.

MUD - Multi-User Domain, Multi-User Dungeon, or Multi-User Dimension. MUDs
are multi-user role-playing-games of sorts that exist on the Internet for
entertainment purposes. MUDs are essentially text-based virtual worlds
which players (participants) may explore, change, or add on to. In most
cases, the MUD is actually a "game" with scores, player attributes,
levels, etc., but some MUDs are with more social goals in mind. MUDs tend
to be based around different science fiction genres such as fantasy,
space, or even cyberpunk.
More recently MUDs have         SIDEBAR - MU*'s have a somewhat unfortunate
developed new uses. Research,   SIDEBAR - of being addicting. I attribute
conferencing, and more          SIDEBAR - this to the strong feeling of
academic MUDs are popping       SIDEBAR - community one gets from mudding.
up like wildflowers these       SIDEBAR - Students have been known to drop
days and indicate a possible    SIDEBAR - out of school just to MUD. Others
trend in the Internet, that     SIDEBAR - have fallen in love over a mu*
being integration of services.  SIDEBAR - only to later realize the other
                                SIDEBAR - player doesn't feel the same.
Nanotechnology - the science    SIDEBAR - I recommend going cold turkey as
of "micro-machines". Small      SIDEBAR - the only solution to the MUDding
gears or other machines seen    SIDEBAR - addiction. =)
only by a microscope, that
can be used in areas such as medicine and health, art, and other
technologies.

Net - A computer network. Often used to mean the Internet when referred to
as "the net".

Netrip - Many similarities exist in some people's minds between
psychedelic drugs and the net, and a netrip is the state of literally
getting "high" off the net, accompanied by distortions in space and time,
a gnowledge of the net itself, an intense desire to communicate your
subconscious to the rest of the net, etc.

New Edge - Fringe culture and fringe science, mostly techno-oriented, and
very popular in Southern California. Mondo 2000 is a magazine devoted to
the new edge.

Nexus - The dictionary defines a "nexus" as a "a connection, tie, or link
between individuals of a group, members of a series, etc." When applied to
virtual cultures and the networked humans which comprise them, a NEXUS is
basically a domicile/workspace/cultural-center formed in real-life by
people who have met and established relationships over the Net.  They
purchase and secure group Internet access, and thus control their own
node, living in close proximity, since creativity blossoms in people when
surrounded with creativity; since similar approaches to work and life can
re-inforce each other.  We have seen this happen on the Net; the NEXUS
community intends to manifest it in reality, to integrate it into our
lifestyle.

Nootropics - A new science revolving around drugs used to increase
intelligence, aid in memory, enhance brain activity, etc. Touted as a fad
by some, others claim that use of nootropics actually work.  See also
SmartDrinks.

Operation Sundevil - Secret Service operation begun in 1990 intended to
destroy the computer underground by confiscating BBSes and detaining
hackers.

Paste Bomb - Sometimes a litteral core dump. Via the Mac's Cut and Paste
capability, take random bits of data from one's hard drive and paste it
into an online conversation, email, mud, whatever.  Eris Lives. Sci-fi
author Bruce Sterling is a notorious paste bomber. Get in the habit

Phrack - An important magazine existing only in cyberspace, of interest to
the computer underground. It's founder, Craig Neidorf, now works for the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Phreaker - Hacking the phone system. Usually meaning to get phone calls
for free, whether by boxing or calling card fraud. Individual phreakers
are called phreaks.

Pirate - One who copies software illegally. Commonly associated with the
computer underground.  Although commonplace, pirates are looked down upon
as with codez d00dz . (sidebar SPA and the big corporation pirates)

Post-industrial - The state of the world, including megacorp zaibatsus, an
evolving infonomics, etc.

Post-modern - Literary, artistic, cultural, and philosophical movement
revolving around the post-industrial world in which we live, and the
unique aspects of the trends of modern society.

Raves - A 'dying' subculture revolving around all-night dance parties.
Typically, the parties are generally illegal and thus a complex process is
involved to find out where they are located. Rave music is generally
techno or house , the parties usually include 1 or more DJs. Also present
in many cases are "chill out rooms" which feature more ambient music.
Lasers, blaring music, cyberdelic images, SmartDrinks and drugs most often
MDMA {X, XTC, Ecstasy, E}, LSD {acid}, ketamine, or nootropics) are all
general contributors to the rave experience.  Raves are usually held in
warehouses, and last until the next morning. Another large part of rave
culture is the flyers - used to find out where your next  party will be.
Raves are meant to be very happy events, everyone ideally should be open
and free, laying aggressions and inhibitions aside for the night. Some
have likened the rave experience to "a weekly roving techno-woodstock for
the 90's."  Rave fashion includes over-sized baggy t-shirts and pants,
hooded sweat-shirts, ski caps, and usually bright colors, as well as
accessories such as whistles, Cat In The Hat hats, "doctor" masks,
VapoRub, etc. Many factors have led to an often heard questions these
days, "where have all the ravers gone?" (one answer is... they've gone Retro)

Shaman - An overused word that in ancient and modern cultures implies one
who is a wise medicine man or healer, with a keen understanding of the
ways of things. Used increasingly in modern culture, especially in
conjunction with techno-paganism.

Slipstream - Term used to denote cyberpunk fiction, particularly pre-1984
fictional works that have been influential to the mirrorshades group or
that closely resemble cyberpunk, but are sometimes outside of the sf
genre. An example would be William S. Burroughs.

SmartDrugs - nootropics.

SmartDrinks - Similar to SmartDrugs, or nootropics, the intent of  these
substances, loaded with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and other healthy
substances, is to aid in brain functioning. Smart Drinks are most often
consumed at raves, thus, the purpose of some smart drinks is to "energize"
the drinker, not to make them smarter.

Sprawl - Word used by William Gibson to mean large mega-cities, and places
where different cities collide. Southern California and New York City
might be early examples of the sprawl. This word is used often in modern
times as "urban sprawl".

Steve Jackson Games - RPG manufacturers that have played a key role in the
evolution of cyberpunk and the computer underground. Operators of the
Illuminati BBS and makers of GURPS Cyberpunk, an RPG guide written by Loyd
Blankenship, a member of the Legion of Doom.

Sterling, Bruce - considered by most to be the "co-founder" of cyberpunk
along with William Gibson. He is the editor of "Mirrorshades: A cyberpunk
anthology," which is considered the quintessential collection of cyberpunk
works by the mirrorshades group. Some of his other works include "Islands
in the Net", "Schismatrix", "Involution Ocean", "The Artificial Kid", "The
Difference Engine" which he co-authored with Gibson and "The Hacker
Crackdown" a non-fiction account of the computer underground and Operation
Sundevil, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Phrack, the Legion
of Doom, Steve Jackson Games, etc. Sterling has also been a vocal member
of the net. Keep your eyes open, you never know where he will surface next.

Social Engineering - Technique by which hackers or crackers acquire
information, such as names and passwords.  Essentially a modern-day con,
often conducted via phone conversations, such as portraying oneself as a
telco employee.

TBT - Talking by Typing.

Techno- - prefix similar to cyber-, referring to anything which has its
roots in current or futuristic technology.

Techno - type of music made almost entirely with the help of computers,
revolving around a fast-paced drum beat (as high as 160 BPM), sampling,
and synthesizers.

Technoculture - The idea of a culture with a strong foundation rooted  in
technology. Often used loosely in association with cyberculture and new edge.

Techno-paganism - Literally the worshipping of technology. Many people
*believe* that, for example, the net has some magic or is a sentient
entity in itself, or that technology can be an agent of evolution.
(sidebar Aleph spew)

Teledildonics - Virtual sex in a virtual environment. Term often used by
the new edge community. (sidebar: from new CD to magazine to etc)

Toasternet - Putting together a LAN, WAN or Internet hook up with the
cheapest of technology. Read up on Toasternets on the Wells Gopher.

Usenet - A collection of "newsgroups" on the Internet, in which Internet
users may post or read messages on almost any subject imaginable. The
topics of discussion are divided up into the individual newsgroups, which
total about 2000 on average. Usenet is divided into various large
sections, including the 'alt'ernative newsgroups, the 'comp'uter
newsgroups, the 'sci'ence newsgroups and the 'talk' newsgroups, among
others. Some groups are moderated, while most remain completely
uncensored. Usenet is often referred to as Abusenet for its all-too
familiar flames and appearance of perpetual chaos.

Virtual Community - any group or gathering that exists in cyberspace. This
could be a BBS, a hacking group, a net, or even a zaibatsu.

Virtual Culture - the collection of virtual communities, and the cultural
aspects unique to those communities.

Virtual Reality - a consentual hallucination of a world existing only in
cyberspace.  Modern day virtual reality uses helmets, gloves, and body
suits to create such a world, which is first created on a computer and
connected to the vr devices. A goal of some virtual reality researchers is
to generate a completely alternate reality. Research in vr includes
networking people, so spatial limitations are meaningless. The
possibilities of vr-generated environments are as limitless as the
imagination.

Virtual World - a world existing in cyberspace created and used with
virtual reality technologies.

WELL - The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. An important gridpoint in the
matrix, a virtual community in cyberspace, also a BBS connected to the
Internet. A group concerned mostly with cyberpunk, virtual reality,
nootropics, and other aspects of the new edge. Many celebreties have an
account on the Well.

WIRED - A new magazine devoted to exploring virtualspace and new
technologies. Wired is not as new edge as Mondo 2000 and seemingly gives
off a more corporate news oriented format. However, it is a refreshing
view and perhaps infonomics first steps into the public realm. (The TIME
magazine of virtual culture.)

Wirehead - a hardware hacker.

Zaibatsu - Japanese term used a lot by William Gibson that means a large
mega-corporation, such as Sony for example.


-=- 07.2.Who's Who Online |
---------------------------

[I wasn't gonna put this in, and it might not make it to the second
release. But here it is, largely in Andy Hawks' memory.]

o Note: If you are looking for a person who is not on the list but should
be, I suggest you use the 'whois' or 'netwhois' command, or finger @ a
particular site if you know the site the person on.

o 2 other obvious places to check are the WELL and MindVox, where a lot of
the cyber-crowd hangs out

Aristotle                       Hacker/ex-Publisher TAP-Online
Pete Ashdown                    Rave Promoter
Anne Balsamo                    Author/Cultural Researcher
John Perry Barlow               EFF/Grateful Dead Songwriter
Brian Behlendorf                NetGuru - Rave stuff
Blade X                         Editor - Scream Baby, Scream'n'MeMe
Loyd Blankenship                Hacker/Author - Gurps CP
Stewart Brand                   Author/Founder - Whole Earth
Gareth Branwyn                  Writer - M2K/bOING-bOING/Wired
Pat Cadigan                     Author - CP works
Michael Cardell                 Editor - P@ Online
Bill Clinton                    Some Guy - Doesn't inhale
Comp. Proffs. for Social Respon.Group - Civil Liberties On-Line
Fred Davis                      Ex-Editor - A+/MacUser
Dorothy Denning                 Computer Crime Expert
Peter J Denning                 Computer Crime/ACM
Desert Fox                      Editor - Worldview
Diesel Boy                      DJ
Dispater                        Editor - Phrack
The EFF                         Group - Civil Liberties On-Line
D. Fischer                      Musician - Techno
FAF                             Free Access Foundation
Mark Frauenfelder               Writer/Programmer - Beyond CP Stack
Seth Friedman                   Editor - Factsheet 5
Mike Godwin                     ex-Legal Counsil - EFF
Emmanuel Goldstein              Editor - 2600
Erik Bloodaxe                   Hacker
Ground Zero                     Editor - ATI
Hactic                          Magazine - CU
Andy Hawks                      FutureCulture creator, net.god.
Steve Jackson                   Steve Jackson Games
Jagwire X                       Writer - ScreamBaby/AUtopia
Judge Dredd                     Editor - NIA
Richard Kadrey                  Writer - SF Eye
Mitch Kapor                     Lotus/EFF Founder
Patrick Kroupa                  Mindvox/Writer - Mondo 2000, Wired
Timothy Leary                   Author/Guru - LSD
Jon Lebkowsky                   FringeWare Inc./Whole Earth/Mondo
Rush Limbaugh                   TalkShow Host/Conservative
Carl Loeffler                   Virtual Reality Museum
Gerard van der Luen             Writer/Comm. Director - EFF
John Markoff                    Writer/Author - Cyberpunks
Dennis McKenna                  Writer/Terence's Brother
Mike McKenna                    Computer Artist - Liquid TV
Lazlo Nibble                    NetGuru - Music
Craig Neidorf(Knight Lightning) Phrack/EFF
Lord Nose                       Publisher - Xochipili
Tom Maddox                      Author - CP works
Gordon Meyer                    Editor - CuD
Marvin Minsky                   Guru - AI
Mondo 2000                      Magazine - CP
Robert Morris                   Internet Worm
Paco Xander Nathan              FringeWare Inc./Writer - Mondo 2000
Peter G Neumann                 Guru - RISKS
Ono-Sendai                      Company - VR
Phiber Optik                    Hacker
Donn B. Parker                  Computer Crime Expert
Pengo                           Hacker
Jerod Pore                      Editor - F5-E
Genesis P-Orridge               Musician - Psychic TV
Mitchell Porter                 Writer - High Wierdness by Email
Stevyn Prothero                 Publisher - Iron Feather Journal
John S Quarterman               Author - The Matrix
Eric S. Raymond                 Author - Jargon File
Howard Rheingold                Writer/Author
Steve Roberts                   Technomad
Len Rose                        Hacker
Rudy Rucker                     Author - CP/SF/Everything Else
Tood Sines                      Musician - Techno
RU Sirius                       Editor - Mondo 2000
Eugene Spafford                 Guru - Net
Richard Stallman                Guru - Unix/Emacs
Ed Stastny                      Artist/Editor - SOUND - OTIS
Steve Steinberg                 Editor - Intertek
Bruce Sterling                  Author - CP / all-around cool guy
St. Jude                        Editor - Mondo 2000
Cliff Stoll                     Author - Cuckoo's Egg
Peter Stone                     Musician/Worked on Aeon Flux
Swamp Ratte                     Editor - cDc
Michael Synergy                 Hacker/Editor - Mondo 2000
Jim Thomas                      Editor - CuD
Wes Thomas                      Editor - Mondo 2000
Ken Thompson                    Guru - Unix
Vernor Vinge                    Author - sf works
Wired                           Magazine - Technoculture
Michael Wertheim                Twitch Remixing
Phil Zimmerman                  PGP Creator/Guru


        oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
        o            -=- Final Words -=-             o
        oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


As you can see this document is shorter in some sections then in other.
But it's a living document. It will grow and morph through time. If you
want to add anything to it... or see a new section... just send me a
note.

I have to give credit where it's due... many thanks to Andy Hawks for
starting the FutureCulture elist, the home of this document. The
inspiration and content of the cyberpoet's guide comes largely from the
FutureCulture FAQ, which was authored by Andy. Others who contributed in
detail and spirit are Freeside's Thesisnet-FAQ, John December's
Internet-cmc, and Scott Yanoff's Internet Services List. Many thanks to
them as well.

Requests to join the FutureCulture E-list should be directed as follows:
6=
The list is officially:         futurec@uafsysb (bitnet)
                                [e-mail] (internet)
[this is where all posts to the list should be sent]

to subscribe, mail to:
                                listserv@uafsysb (bitnet)
                                [e-mail] (internet)

body of message is:
                                subscribe FUTUREC your name

to leave the list, same as above except:
                                unsubscribe FUTUREC your name

if you want to receive a copy of your own posts ("reflector" mode):
                                set futurec repro

if you want to receive a daily digest instead of realtime:
                                set futurec digest

to get help and more info:
                                info refcard


                        -=> The End <=-


.....for now......