Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.

It Wasn’t Just the Trolls: Early Internet Culture, “Fun,” and the Fires of Exclusionary Laughter

"to assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies (bio, nano, info, etc); and to apply, focus and guide these to the best benefit of humanity and its environment."

Sociologists must go through a lot of pants when they cruise the digital realm because subcultures are constantly spawning subcultures to the point there is a sort of electronic gravy made from all these people meeting online (...)

"An image macro is a picture with text superimposed, typically through the use of graphics software"

"Justin wears the camera 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."

"(...) the roles that are taken up in an online community that's based around a "thing" (...). You'd choose to wear that mask and then hop on stage and do the dance that so many have done before you."

The notion is that the Internet is becoming less of a place we "go to" and more of a layer atop our entire everyday reality. As a result, the term "cyberspace," coined by William Gibson in 1984, just doesn't seem relevant anymore.

Third Voice was WebAnnotation software: a way to "post sticky notes" with your comments on any site on the Web. Others in your group, or everyone using the Third Voice product could see them.

the death of Asheron's Call 2, so the end of a whole world

Musings on Massively Multiplayer Online Games, among other things, written by Mark Wallace

sex in mmog

Grid-crashing attack on Second Life

about the new virtual worlds