I remember this event with deep fondness… I often used to joke during my high-tech bicycling years that I was “an agent of Future Shock,” and this is one moment that epitomized that. The world was changing fast, and the tiny microculture of online denizens danced playfully in a whole different reality than the one…

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In 2020, a marvelous 37-year-old file turned up in my archives… the record of what, in 1983, was a rare phenomenon. A romance was developing in the ether of CompuServe, and while pedaling down the East Coast I was falling for a wonderful online information consultant in Berkeley. This is common now, so much so…

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