I was touring the Davies archives the other day (ie I was looking under the bed) and I found this old copy of The Idler from 1994. And then I remembered I'd written an article for it - click on the above to read it. It's rather quaint. Very cliched view of the web, you could tell I'd not lived in the States yet. What dates it even more is that on the next page there was a piece from Ivan Pope explaining things like what a URL is.
That Demon email is a dead giveaway!
Posted by: Rob Mortimer | April 25, 2006 at 01:23 AM
Heh, heh, just found this (long tail or what). I love it. Firstly, you were bang on the nail, good foresight. Secondly, the item is written in classic Idler argot, i.e. we're not even going to pretend to be interested in this, we're going to mock it, because English people just don't take all this stuff seriously. I always thought Tom (Hodgkinson, creator of Idler) was a classic paradox - totally committed to his project which was based on the idea of not being committed to anything. Best, Ivan
Posted by: Ivan Pope | June 10, 2006 at 01:01 PM