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Adam Joshua Smargon's Accounts

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You are reading this with a pretty good computer. It is highly portable (weighing just 3 pounds), draws little power, has a lot of memory, is adept at pattern recognition, and has the ability -- unique so far among all computing entities -- to generate and process natural languages. All this and stereo sound, too. On the downside, it is terribly slow (just a few floating-point calculations a second), it's down for at least a third of every day, and its software is full of bugs, despite having spent the last quarter of a million years in beta. Nevertheless, this computer -- the human brain -- has always been the gold standard.

In Search of the Electronic Brain

Michael Gruber

I always want to be more wired than I am... but I think I already qualify for citizenship in the digital nation. I imagine I am part of that elite top one percent of the world population that has too much Internet access to begin with. Never mind that I don't own a computer!

And, to add to that confusion, I will soon have my own domain name -- and still no computer. Yes, smargon.net is on the way. (I would have taken smargon.com, but that aforementioned plastics company grabbed it first.)

The computer industry is finally old enough to have a documented history. PBS did this with a three-hour program called Triumph of the Nerds, and a sequel, properly titled Nerds 2.0.1.

And I believe that cyberspace should be free, et cetera, et cetera, and so A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, by John Perry Barlow, is especially important.

name location machine electronic mail finger me! FTP
smargon.net Atlanta, Georgia jake.smargon.net
adam@smargon.net
finger FTP
The Alachua Freenet Gainesville, Florida afn.org recycler@afn.org finger FTP
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association Troy, New York web-based mail access only smargon@alum.rpi.edu finger ---
David Deckert Gainesville, Florida zorac.visar.com
recycler@visar.com finger FTP
SwitchBoard Westboro, Massachusetts webmail.switchboard.com
recycler@iname.com finger ---
Yahoo! Santa Clara, California mail.yahoo.com
recycler1973@yahoo.com finger ---
Southeast Florida Library Information Network Fort Lauderdale, Florida dc.seflin.org d016231c@dc.seflin.org finger ---

name	location	machine	electronic mail	finger me!	FTP
smargon.net	Atlanta, Georgia	jake.smargon.net	adam@smargon.net	finger	FTP
The Alachua Freenet	Gainesville, Florida	afn.org	recycler@afn.org	finger	FTP
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Alumni Association	Troy, New York	web-based mail access only	smargon@alum.rpi.edu	finger	---
David Deckert	Gainesville, Florida	zorac.visar.com	recycler@visar.com	finger	FTP
SwitchBoard	Westboro, Massachusetts	webmail.switchboard.com	recycler@iname.com	finger	---
Yahoo!	Santa Clara, California	mail.yahoo.com	recycler1973@yahoo.com	finger	---
Southeast Florida Library Information Network	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	dc.seflin.org	d016231c@dc.seflin.org	finger	---