Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

["Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>]

A venerable group of webheads in San Francisco have declared that the Internet
is fun again and that it's time to revive a tradition that ran from 1994-1997.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52239,00.html

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Soon after making friends in chat rooms, she realized that "you can't have a
viable online community without an IRL (In Real Life) component. Eighty
percent of communication is extralinguistic. Being able to trust someone has a
lot to do with meeting them face to face."
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Thursday night's theme, "Gold Rush Bums," asks attendees to "dress like
someone from right after any of San Francisco's big crashes: Post Gold-Rush,
Post Silver Lode, Post Gay '90s, the Great Depression, the Selfish '70s, or
the Dot-com Bummer," and to bring a coffee mug from a failed Internet venture,
for filling with a hearty helping of hobo stew.
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Steuer said he thinks the party is a sign the Internet is becoming fun like it
used to be. "I think this is the time when interesting shit happens again," he
said. "It's where we were in '92 or '93, when we were looking around wondering
what would happen, without a plan for how we would end up on top of the pile."