Net Writings

From Info Nation, Minneapolis, Minnesota

These were written between 1995 and 1997. Annotations marked "note 1", "note 2", etc. are later additions.

Net Use and History

• uuencoding
• mail clients
• IRC (part 1, how-to)
• IRC (part 2, short history)
• mischief-making on Usenet
• Search Engines (September 1995)
• EDGAR at the Securities and Exchange Commission
• THOMAS at the Library of Congress
• What's It All About? BBS Use and the Info Superhighway

Heroes of Cyberspace

• John Brunner
• William Gibson
• Thomas Pynchon
• Claude Shannon
• Alan Turing

Censorship and Control

• Exon Amendment (later referred to as the "Communications Decency Act")
• Censorship situation in other countries in 1995
• German and French censorship attempts (March 1996)
• Phil Zimmerman case
• Phil Zimmerman case resolution
• In Search of El Dorado: digital cash schemes (October 1995)

Local Interest

• Minnesota cut off from the Internet
• Minnesota's Usenet feeds
• Winternet management upheaval
• ISDN in Minnesota

From Computer Buyer's Resource, Minneapolis, Minnesota

• things you can do via e-mail
• ftp by e-mail
• Usenet by e-mail
• using anonymous remailers

• www.gimonca.com