Word: skat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Downtown, New York City; Tuesday, around midnight. Skat is interacting on live chat with Appzworld. A twentysomething blond, she rants into a microphone as a Canon XL-1 digital video camera sends streaming footage of her to a few dozen Webcast viewers across the U.S. and Canada. With her free hand, she types responses to comments posted in the IRC (Internet relay chat) Netfiend room...
...What's up, Appz? You got skillz?" Skat asks, mugging for the camera. She steps back to read aloud his offer to swap pirated content for high-tech gear. "Appz wants to trade a Star Wars screener for a new motherboard PII 200 with a sound card...
...tell you for sure. But they are thrilled to be here so deep into the night. Internet television is an unproved--and, for the moment, virtually unwatched--medium, yet the Netfiend crew is resolutely sure it is on the verge of something very big. So confident are Skat and Pseudo.com's 70 other employees of the vast potential of their still undefined and unsellable product that they are willing to be underpaid for 70-hour workweeks in a poorly ventilated former garment factory...
...Skat, the Web host, looks up from her monitor and says, "Pseudo is about hiring young kids who live the Net and don't know about equity positions." As for Skat, well, she's a little older now, and she's working out her own deal--which will, of course, include stock options...
Olympics (Fig. Skat., Jump...