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During my drift into the digital world, and throwing away physical goods like papers and books, I try to collect the electronically accessible versions of such documents. Here we have an more or less unsorted list.

Research / FAQ’s / Zines / etc.

• The essential: The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling; by then (early 90ies) already under sort of CC license
• Study Guide for William Gibson
• The Blade Runner FAQ (different location but same, slightly enhanced content)
• Archive of Cheap Truth by Bruce Sterling
• A classic in the original version: A Rape in Cyberspace by Julian Dibbell
• No excerpt found, but a link directing to the authors page: Ada: The Enchantress of Numbers by Betty Toole; Is Ada the reason why the naming of programing languages starts with A, the there was Basic and C and Delphi and so on?
• Approaching Zero – The Extraordinary Underworld of Hackers, Phreakers, Virus Writers, and Keyboard Criminals by Paul Mungo & Bryan Glough
• Auf Deutsch: Die Dekonstruktion der utopischen Gegenwart – William Gibsons Cybertopien
• Marshall McLuhan Meets William Gibson in “Cyberspace” – A CMC Magazine feature of September 1995

Core sites

Within the list of linked papers some of the core sites (there from the beginning) are hidden. For me these are:

• WELL – Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link; launched in – take a seat – 1985!
• EFF – Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Boing Boing
• Wired

Stories / Short stories

• The essential: Bruce Sterling’s Canon of Cyberpunk literature and related Magazines and Secondary literature (and yes, I owned most of this)
• Now a interesting one: Agrippa by William Gibson (again different location as user kendall does not host his stuff at suburbia.net; but where?)
• A Bit About Bio Works (Part I, Part II) by Tranquility
• Short story server: The Tea Bowl