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News spreads quickly and efficiently via E-mail, and when the digerati got wind of Burning Man, something clicked. The pierced and tattooed young Netizens of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area spend their workdays and worknights making little decentralized theaters of do-it-yourself creativity on the World Wide Web. Burning Man and its temporary city are material manifestations of the same creative urge. It was a perfect fit, a perfect way to celebrate a year of laboring on the Internet...
...years, the techier-than-thou digerati have been deriding AOL as "training wheels for the Internet" and predicting the imminent demise of the firm's proprietary-software model at the hands of the free-to-the-masses World Wide Web. But now that AOL has matched its Web rivals on price, the training wheels have come off. And AOL is not only still pedaling, but--its recent mishaps notwithstanding--it also currently runs the most lucrative toll booth on the information highway...
...long years to raise backing for the magazine. The pundits of publishing said Wired shouldn't be a print magazine. "They said we should be doing the next big thing: CD-ROMs." He ignored them, and three years later his publication is not only required reading among the digerati, but is thick with ads. Nobody digs a guy who beats conventional wisdom...
...idea that is catching on--and not only among the Bay Area digerati. "By next fall about 85% of our games will have some kind of online capability," says Jeffrey Anderson, director of domestic licensing for Viacom Consumer Products, which is talking to Velocity about building a Star Trek-based MUD. "Everybody recognizes that that's where the money is going...
...because it combined all the pieces of the Net--text, audio, images--onto "pages" that could be viewed from anywhere in the world. Mosaic was the first glimpse of a multimedia future that giants such as Microsoft had been predicting but not delivering. And it changed everything. Among the digerati, the question "Where were you when you first saw Mosaic?" is as significant as asking people from an earlier generation where they were when they first heard the Beatles...