[BNM] $100 Laptop

[Antony Jones]

> Should we have a quick catch-up for the newbies? Kevin Kelly, Howard
> Rheingold, the Usenet Flamewars, Green-card Lawyers, Wired, MUDs,
> Mondo 2000, boingboing on paper, Transhumanists and Extropians, Smart
> drugs, 'homepages', Modern Primatives and body modificaton, the dotcom
> boom, ICQ, ebay, altavista, hotbot, the pets.com sock puppet, the
> dotcom bust, google, blogging, myspace.

Can you link those to wikipedia articles?

Also, you forgot 'all your base are belong to us', and viral marketing.

Antony Jones
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Phelan [mailto:dave.phelan at gmail.com]
> Sent: 09 June 2006 16:29
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] $100 Laptop
> 
> On 6/9/06, Tim Blackwell <tim at redisland.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Dave wrote:
> > >  >Negroponte is a lot of things, but is he really a neocon? Any
> > >references?
> >
> > John Negroponte is the neo-con.
> > Nicholas Negroponte is the laptop man.
> 
> Aha!
> James thought we meant:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
> when we meant:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
> 
> Is there anyone else who's not been in the industry long enough to
> know about Nicholas "Being Digital" "Bits versus Atoms" "I was doyen
> of the MIT Media Lab, me" Negroponte?
> 
> Should we have a quick catch-up for the newbies? Kevin Kelly, Howard
> Rheingold, the Usenet Flamewars, Green-card Lawyers, Wired, MUDs,
> Mondo 2000, boingboing on paper, Transhumanists and Extropians, Smart
> drugs, 'homepages', Modern Primatives and body modificaton, the dotcom
> boom, ICQ, ebay, altavista, hotbot, the pets.com sock puppet, the
> dotcom bust, google, blogging, myspace.
> 
> There you go. heads back into the MMORPG guys.
> 
> Dave Ph
> 
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