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TheInternovel
byGabe Wollenburg
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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Anyresemblance to real persons, living, dead, including electronicpersona, is purely coincidental.
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Introduction:
A bit of historical perspective: The Internet was a funny place in 1994. The World Wide Web was being used to do cutting edge things like allow people to keep track of the levels of coffee in a pot in a computer lab in England.Dial up services that were not AOL typically offered users the option of using a Terminal-based interface, and PPP or TCP was a luxury that often required a special login and administrative permission. It was a text-based Internet.That
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s the world this novella was composed in, and the world it was composed around.It was never meant to be a period piece, and I have resisted the effort to go back and make it so-- for now. It was my first, serious attempt at writing something with a longer format. I share it today as a time capsule of the Internet as it affected a midwestern college town in the Spring 1994.Today
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s computers, high speed connections, and always-on-Internet life-streams make fifteen years ago seems so far away now-- and so foreign.Because they is.Gabe Wollenburg -- April 10, 2009
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