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forgotten websites4 entries
- cat-91-04cameron's homepage (1996)— a boy's fan site for a moth. still, somehow, hosted.
- cat-91-08the webring of one— a webring with a single member. it loops back to itself, politely.
- cat-91-15geocities/heartland/9111/— recovered from a floppy in a coat pocket. mostly midi files.
- cat-91-22hamsterdance mirror #7— the one where the hamsters unionize.
old internet4 entries
- cat-04-01usenet primer, 1988— how to be polite to strangers over 300 baud.
- cat-04-03bbs door games: an oral history— someone talks about tradewars for 40 minutes. it is beautiful.
- cat-04-07the finger protocol, annotated— finger was a love language and we misplaced it.
- cat-04-11aol keyword archaeology— a taxonomy of the word 'chat' between 1994 and 1999.
dead protocols4 entries
- cat-11-02gopher: the polite one— menus. all the way down. calm.
- cat-11-05wais: it was fine, actually— search before it decided to be a business.
- cat-11-08netbios over ipx— we don't miss it. we do miss missing it.
- cat-11-14irc dcc: a defense— actually the best way to send someone a photo of a cat.
digital folklore4 entries
- cat-19-01the girl in the wallpaper (asp/net, 2003)— she waves if you refresh at midnight. do not refresh at midnight.
- cat-19-04polybius, but for real this time— spoiler: not real. more real than most things.
- cat-19-07long car (a copypasta)— the car was long. that is the entire story. it is enough.
- cat-19-11the man in the middle attack (folkloric variant)— he is polite. he brings orange slices.
computer myths4 entries
- cat-22-02'you can catch a virus from a jpeg'— sometimes true. mostly a vibe.
- cat-22-06the 640k quote (never said)— he did not say it. he did, however, think it. maybe.
- cat-22-09the halting problem, as a bedtime story— the child sleeps. the program does not.
- cat-22-13the ghost in the machine (was a mouse)— it was a mouse. we do not know how it got in.
interesting pdfs4 entries
- cat-30-01the cathedral and the bazaar, marginalia edition— someone wrote 'lol' 41 times. we counted.
- cat-30-03unix koans— the master turned it off and on again. the student was enlightened.
- cat-30-05on the phenomenology of the loading spinner— 9 pages. worth it.
- cat-30-09how to sweep (internal, undated)— moss won't confirm authorship. moss also won't deny it.
books4 entries
- cat-40-01hackers, steven levy— the good one. the whole one.
- cat-40-04close to the machine, ellen ullman— read on a train. read again on a different train.
- cat-40-07the soul of a new machine, tracy kidder— engineers cry. it's fine. we cry too.
- cat-40-11in the beginning was the command line, neal stephenson— we still are, secretly.
research4 entries
- cat-55-01field notes on webring decay— webrings rust. slowly. sideways.
- cat-55-04an ethnography of readme files— one is a poem. one is a threat. most are neither.
- cat-55-08case study: the ghost forum— see MYSTERY-0017. see also: your inbox.
- cat-55-12on friday tab-closing (a pilot study, n=1)— the participant felt better. the participant was moss.