I’m bunking with Britt in Berkeley, watching him blog about bux.
While he blogs, I sit across the desk, answering emails.
I’ve called blogging “email in public.” Maybe emailing is “blogging in private.” Or blogging for one.
When I first started my Electronic Life, back around 1982 (yes, we had electricity then), there were no chat rooms. That was okay, because there usually were not enough people online to fit into a modern one of them. I arrived in time for the one-on-one chat interface introduced by the Source. The Source was a sort of AOL prototype that lived in Virginia somewhere. Before that, I was assured by the many friends I did manage to acquire, one simply emailed a tremendous amount.
Email, at that time (and yes, that’s where we coined the term, there and thereabouts), was something we wanted to be more than personal, but we didn’t know how to make it so. Bulletin boards and chat rooms were (not very far) into the future.
Intent: how to turn intent into electronic impulses which can be translated into packets on a packet-switched network. And it’s been over twenty years. We’ve done okay so far.
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