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October 2017: Colin Schwartz: Justin Hall: Blogging Pioneer on "theblogstarter.com"since i started in early 1994, there are a number of pages across the web and in print that link to me.these are the ones i have seen, and the ones that go into some depth.
September 2017: a mention on a TV show "Halt and Catch Fire", season 4
Unexpected, fun connection to the show's creators.
July 2017: El hombre que lleva 20 a Juneos publicando cada segundo de su vida en internet thanks to Jose Manuel Blanco
June 2017, Brian McCullough interviewed me for the Internet History Podcast: the "First" Blogger Justin Hall.
In 2015, a number of people wrote about overshare, a documentary I put together about personal online publishing.
15 December: Dear Diary by Marco Gonsen - looking at a 40 year old 20 year blogger, in Spanish!
11 December 2014: Justin Hall: 20 Years of Blogging from the radio show Innovation Hub out of WGBH Boston. Also published by PRI - Public Radio International.
17 November 2014: blog weekly out of Beijing, by Jin Zhao. First time someone wrote about my work in Chinese!
5 October 2014: Columbia Journalism Review Is this the Web's first blog? Justin Hall's 20-year-old website shows how opportunities in online journalism slowly developed, by Lene Bech Sillesen
20 October 2014: Next Draft by Dave Pell
This Justin1 October 2014: Vanity Fair: Walter Isaacson, The Great Connectors:
Anyone who was around during the Internet's earliest days knows that Justin Hall was the medium's first, true patient zero. Justin was oversharing before oversharing was a thing. And with all due respect to your most prolific Facebook friends and a couple decades worth of reality TV, no one has shared like Justin shared. In a recent talk at the XOXO Festival, Justin Hall reflected on a life lived online.As a result, 1994 also witnessed the birth of a whole new medium. Justin Hall, a freshman at Swarthmore, created a beguiling Web site that included a running log of his personal activities, random thoughts, deep beliefs, and intimate encounters. His Web log featured poems about his father's suicide, spiky musings about his diverse sexual desires, pictures of his penis, edgy stories about his stepfather, and other effusions that darted back and forth across the line of Too Much Information. By linking to others with similar logs he fostered a sense of community. Soon the phrase "Web log" had been shortened to "blog," and Justin Hall had become a founding scamp of the first wholly new form of content to be created for, and to take advantage of, personal-computer networks.29 January 2014: The Guardian (UK): Katie Rogers and Ruth Spencer, The blog turns 20: a conversation with three internet pioneers - Dave Winer, Megan Hourihan and Justin Hall on the web's transformation from 'small village' to 'megalopolis'6 August 2006: US News and World Report: Liz Halloran, Musings for the Millions
Underground. Which brings us to one Justin Hall. In January 1994, as a Swarthmore College media major, Hall began a frequently updated online diary in which he shared personal information and recommended websites from the presearch engine days. If not the first, "Justin's Links From the Underground" was among the earliest blogs as we now know them. "When I started, there weren't many personal voices," says Hall, who, true to his Net roots, insisted on a Google chat interview and would take no credit for being a pioneer. "Blogging is a democratic form," he says, "so it's appropriate that [it] be celebrated with many origin myths."5 May, 2005 - Interview on neomarxisme.comHe describes the emergence of blogs in the 1990s as "'morphic resonance'--a somewhat whimsical theory that says that people and animals can spontaneously come up with something when the time is right." We can't crown Hall or any first blogger here, but he and his ilk have had a heck of a resonance: The Technorati website tracks 50 million blogs. It doesn't include Hall's diary: He shut it down last year and has moved on to a post-blog world, developing an online system he calls Passively Multiplayer. You'll have to wait to read about it. Online, of course.
Not print, but flattering and fun.20 February 2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Time to get a life -- pioneer blogger Justin Hall bows out at 31
Article published when I resigned from my blog; front page on the Sunday Chronicle, front page on the SFGate web site! Holy moses. At the time I was 30 not 31.19 December 2004, New York Times Magazine, Your Blog or Mine?, by Jeffrey Rosen
The founding father of personal bloggers may be Justin Hall, who started his Web site, Links.net, 10 years ago when he was a student at Swarthmore. ''When I first started doing it, they called it a personal home page; then they said I'm one of the first Web diarists, and now I'm one of the first Web bloggers,'' he said. Hall's short biography says that he is enrolled as a graduate student in interactive media at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. But if you follow the links to his unofficial biography, you will learn much, much more about him -- more than 4,800 pages of postings, in fact. You will learn about his relationship with his father (''When I was 8, my father, an alcoholic, killed himself''), his stepfather (''the intense difficulty we had getting to know each other was perhaps inevitable'') and his high-school friends. You will see photographs posted from his travels around the world and read his daily thoughts on ''art, writing, science, eating disorders, African-American religions and tai chi.'' But, as Hall notes, ''the most popular subject is sex.'' Here the links provide a great deal of personal information. Follow the link to ''looking for love,'' and you will find Hall's sexual biography, which includes a cumulative tally of ''Various Romantic Partners (Spring 1992 - Present) -- Penetrative sex with a total of 26 people, ranging in age from 16 to 38. Fifteen of these exchanges were one-evening insertions.'' At least one of these exchanges culminated in a sexually transmitted disease. (Click the link for details.)Fall 2003: Stockton.edu, Blog on Blogs: Justin's Halls Links.netHall takes notes on his mobile phone, a Trio 650 with a camera, and he often posts photographs directly to the Web in real time. This gives his journal, at its best, the immediacy of a gonzo documentary, but it also runs the risk of upsetting people whose names or photos appear in his journal without their consent. As his blog has become more widely read, Hall says, former girlfriends have asked him to remove their names because they fear professional consequences if a Google search revealed their previous association with such a racy character. When one former girlfriend, with whom he lived for four years, asked him to remove her from the site, he replied: ''This is my art. I'll remove specific things that bother you, but I can't go through the entire Web site and remove every mention of your name.''
25 March 2003: Electronic Book Review, Justin Hall and the Birth of the 'Blogs, by Rob Wittig
And it is to that entire Miller-Nin co-oeuvre, in all the glory of its two-decade striptease, that I would compare Justin Hall's Web site, if someone forced me to compare it to a print-world work. Same confessional project, same collaborative spirit.10 May 2002: Salon, Use the blog, Luke, By Steven Johnson
Nearly eight years after Justin Hall uploaded his first hypertext diary entry, weblogging has finally hit the mainstream. Everyone seems to have a published opinion on this not-so-new new thing, and if the attention seems a little belated, it's not undeserved.After all, a number of significant developments separate us from pioneering sites like Links From the Underground or Robot Wisdom: The blogging population itself has grown dramatically, and has begun organizing itself into a genuine community rather than a series of isolated sites; software tools have been built specifically to let noncoders create and maintain blogs; and the universe of potential pages to link to has expanded by several orders of magnitude since Hall launched his site. There's simply more Web to log, and consequently more need for experienced guides.
24 May 2001: Old Man Murray, "Salon Followup"
As a measure of what deep financial trouble Salon is in, I respectfully - and bravely - present this ebay auction and the subsequent article on Salon. If you discount Wagner James Au's weird, finger-wagging, Amish-among-the-English story, Salon's only coverage of E3 was 900 words they won in a kid's ebay auction for $14.50.May 2001: Yahoo Internet Life Who Let The Blogs Out?, by Heidi Pollock
And Justin Hall of Links.net was probably the first individual to post a running commentary about his Web discoveries, on "Links from the Under ground," back in the Web's Jurassic era (1994).16 January 2001: Interactive Week, Ego Finds A New Outlet In 'Blogs', Sarah L. Roberts-Witt.
Links.net: The man behind the oldest traditional weblog and the most well-known, Justin Hall is still going strong. His page reads just like a personal diary, with random words linking to related sites that you'd probably never find surfing on your own.
Rebecca Blood, who has written an extensive history of blogging, says the movement first began to take hold in late 1998. But the very first blogs are even older: Justin Hall, now director of innovation at Gamers.com, built his original blog - though he didn't call it that at the time - more than six years ago. Hall's Links from the Underground site lives on today, and he continues to code each and every entry by hand.24 December 2000: New York Times Magazine "Game Over," by Hope Reeves."Back in those days, you had to dig pretty deep to find really cool stuff, so I wanted to archive and share all the weird places I had found," Hall says. "But most people don't have the patience for banging out code in a Unix browser."
It's a nice mention, but "...banging out code in a Unix browser." is probably the dumbest thing I never said.
An article about the PlayStation 2 shortage has a compilation quote on my own consumer acquisition saga.December 2000: Industry Standard. "Whatever Happened to Justin Hall?" (bottom of this page).
GAMER: Justin Hall, 26, Oakland, Calif.The reporter called Gamers.com looking for good quotes. George Chen and Kenn Hwang and I each put out good I guess.
WHEN HE WON: Oct. 26
WINNING STRATEGY: Amazon.com.
"First I went to Target at 6:10 a.m., and there were like 70 people ahead of me. When everybody found out they only had 50, people started calling all over the place on their cell phones, and the rumors were buzzing: 'They have some at Montgomery Ward.' 'A guy 15 people back says Best Buy's the place to go.' I stopped by Montgomery Ward on the way to work. Of course they didn't have any. At work I heard Amazon was selling some at noon and set my calendar to remind me. I hit reload over and over again and I got one. It was like winning the golden ticket from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' I'm giving it to my 10- and 7-year-old nephews for Christmas. They'd better think I'm the coolest uncle in the world."
It's like Behind the Music - I've given up my wicked video gaming ways for a life as a gospel musician. Well, not really. This piece covers my internet past and my video gaming future, with lively quotes from Howard. Multiple profanities. Funny being a 25 year old has-been.November 2000: Village Voice. Genre Watch, by Julian Dibbell.
Steve Rhodes pointed this out to me.October 2000: New York University. I discover Lamar Graham's "Online Reporting" class where one week's assignment involves my site:My own tastes skew toward the slightly more baroque. Give me the venerable Justin Hall's Just in Time - the diary of a life-loving, painfully open twentysomething Web-industry veteran, maintained since the Web's earliest days and at this point so artfully encrusted with cross-linked allusions to previous entries that it's probably got Proust kicking himself for dying before there was hypertext.
There was hypertext in Proust's age - he rolled it out like dough and cut the cookies he could from what he had. Now, I've got access to a nano-cookie fabricator here so I don't have to work as hard as he did. Good thing, cork trees are nearly extinct I hear.
Assignment 3: Justin's Links From The Underground5 July 2000: San Francisco Bay Guardian: Cyberculture 2000: "Net pioneers R.U. Sirius and Justin Hall look back, forward, and sideways." This was nice, a local free weekly gave me and RU Sirius a chance to dialog back and forth. Fun sharing.
Visit Justin's Links From the Underground. From the homepage, click on any link you like. Read what you find at the destination page and then choose another link. Repeat 10 times total. Write a short report (400-500 words) summarizing your journey through Justin's Links. Note each URL you clicked on and write a paragraph about each page. Concentrate on the nature of the narrative: What do you think you learned about the author in just 10 clicks?
19 November 1999: New York Times: `Home Page': In This Version of Cyberutopia, Show and Tell Lasts All Day by Stephen Holden, who said "Computer gurus like Justin Hall, the bratty, motor-mouthed exhibitionist," aw gee, shucks.
from melly: Konrad, a german web magazine, Oct/Nov 1999: "How sex made the web" "...In 1995 the web-pioneer Justin Hall applied to the Domain www.fuck.com and so broke the myth of an anarchistic, non-hierarchic web. But first the for this address-order responsible Network-Information-Center demanded an assurement, that he would take full liability for any juristic consequences. Today we make politics out of that. ...."
October 1999: Business 2.0, "Web-O-Matic" by G. Beato: Talking about hosting and promotions options for small e-commerce ventures "Sponsorships and banner ads began to replace Justin Hall's Links from the Underground as the primary means of driving traffic..."
may 1999: "Justin Time: Net Nostalgia by Roger Ebert, Yahoo Internet Life. He's a nice guy I think -
"What he discovered with Justin's Links is the same thing that guests discover on The Jerry Springer Show: you can get famous if you will do and say things that people are amazed to find you doing and saying. But now the moment of instant Web celebrity is fading, and Justin isn't stuck there. His site still contains personal revelations, but he doesn't slash and burn."I certainly I hope not!
feburary 1999: No Nudity Allowed, by Jean Winegardner, OJR Guest Contributor. Your personal home page can get you fired: at least that's what happened to Justin Hall.
january 1999: Interview with the Center for Digital Storytelling. These people have done a lot to expose me to great thinkers and storytellers, and they've broadened me as a storyteller by giving me a stage, talking to me, and just plain being nice. and smart.
january 1999: I was in a film that appeared at Sundance. Accordinaly, it was reviewed by a couple of publications: Variety had this to say:
An over-the-top, androgynous eccentric who sees himself as a Messiah spreading the gospel of the Web, Justin draws both loathing and fandom.for more current links to film coverage, check doug's "buzzzzz".
november 1998: "Famous to 15 People" by Michael Van Vleet, SF Weekly Web Extra. Towards the end, talking about my participation in WebZine '98. He extensively semi-quotes my spew ("preaching to the converted like a minister on speed") and finishes with a nearly touching moment.
November 1998: "'Zine but not Heard? The Faithful at Webzine '98 Say 'No Way'" by Josh Wilson, SFGate (San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle Online) - "In one of the evening's highlights, Justin Hall -- formerly of HotWired and Howard Rheingold's Electronic Minds venture, champion of online-navel gazing and all-purpose Internet evangelist -- delivered an entertaining rant in favor of self-publishing, and against the emasculating qualities of investment dollars. " Really makes me sound like a worthwhile being - "all-purpose." There's more - he actually quotes me.
Boston Globe - brief mention as a seminal (my word) diarist.
may 1998: Philadelphia Magazine, page 41, "haulden caufield dot com" by larry platt. larry took the thousands of words unused by details, took me out to dinner with amy again (this time in philly) and wrote it all up. a bit over the top for me - too much of the "justin is a famous idealistic prophet for his generation" stuff. but larry's a nice guy, very busy.
13 april 1998: hometown newspaper: the chicago tribune prints BUILDERS DESERT HOMEPAGES AS NOVELTY TAPERS, by James Romenesko of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. a piece on the neglect of home pages - many lie fallow. interesting reflections by jon katz herein, he must have lead them to me: "One of the first on-line diarists, Hall has been putting words on the Web since 1994. His poignant memories of his dad are recommended reading." and then they link here, www.links.net/daze/98/03/. weird
april 1998: april 1 and april 8 - two part interview with don willmott in pc magazine online. this was after our interview of some two years ago; he threw back at me some of my earlier idealism and asked for a more current accounting. he printed extensive answers i gave him to e-mail questions; i was honoured by his patience. going back and revisiting my earlier enthusiasms was engaging.
march 1998: philadelphia inquirer, reid kannaley. aside from some interesting quotes and exploration of a female webcam devotee, reid's article here has a 1996 tone to it - provincial and shocked and unreflective and actually shallow i think. at least i found my appearance in it rather disappointing.
19 march, 1998: new york times, profile of doug block, by pamela o'connell. "Mr. Block's browsing led him to the Web site of Justin Hall, a Swarthmore student with an emotionally wrenching personal home page and a large following." i was glad to see him and his film get big billing from someone who knew what they were talking about, but i was a little saddened by pamela's use of the word "repel" to describe possible effects of my web page. i mentioned this to doug, and he relayed this response:
meant to convey to you a comment from pam o'connell. when i mentioned you were upset by the r-word (repellant) in the article, she said she didn't actually didn't write that. her word was "disturbing" but the times editor felt it wasn't strong enough and they chose repellant (without seeing your site, of course). In fact, upon hearing about your site from pam they even asked her "how do you know he hasn't just made it all up?" she said she was totally dumbfounded.
february 1998: i appeared in jon lebkowsky's austin chronicle piece on doug block's movie.
San Francisco Examiner "Hillary just doesn't get it," NetSkink for February 22, 1998, friend rebecca eisenberg illustrates hillary clinton's internet ignorance with some vision of personal development of the web - me and patrick farley in particular.
january 1998, mark frauenfelder/wired news article about "scribe tribe": personal diarists online. my full answers to his interview questions appear here on my site.
may 1997, i went to sweden and spoke at sime. several swedish newspapers and magazines interviewed me and covered my participation. i heard some magazine voted me best of something, but i never found out for sure.
from may 28, dagens nyheter(?), Internets fšrsta kŠndis, by Po Tidholm, svante's brother.Yoshihiro Kaneda's book, "Net Voice in the City," published in Japan by ASCII, ISBN4-7561-1285-4, pages 74-83. I can't read japanese, but there's a big picture of my face, i lookish horsish. I believe it's a book about the "peace, love, internet!" scene in San Francisco. He interviewed me and came by Cyborganic a lot in 1995, but Electric Minds made it in as well.Swedish CAP & Design magazine, number 6, October 1997, "i heta stolen: tre excentriska internetorakel," an interview, with Trine Dyrlev and Alex Nieminen, of questions from traditional Scandinavian graphic designers about the web. somehow my pullquote seems to concern the sexuality of web design, i think i made a comment to that effect - it's in swedish though.
Details magazine, June 1997, Careers Issue, two page spread, "Promote your Insecurities." a picture of amy and i taken by michael lewis in a diner looking authentic takes up more space than the foreshortened story of justin's career by larry platt. highlights? semen eating and answering wired's hypocrisy. page 108. i can vouch for the fact that they photoshopped out a zit or two that i was proudly bearing on my face that day.
pamela o'connell, personal web page expert at the mining company, examines the relationship between doug block and the subject matter of his film home page, including me, may 19, 1997.
wall street journal, 24 april 1997, "Dear Internet Diary" article by David Kirkpatrick. it dwells on my titillating experiences, but has a good quote from me on henry miller's online diarist potential.
Some fans say diaries could turn out to be the Internet's first contribution to literature, just as new genres like serial novels and free-verse poetry followed the widespread dissemination of printed books. "When Henry Miller was writing 'Tropic of Cancer,' what if he had come home from bars every night and recorded his bisexual escapades on the Internet?" muses Mr. Hall.
... Almost anyone can afford to launch an autobiographical Web page, which costs just $20 a month. Readers can locate diaries by calling up the writer's name with an Internet search engine. If present trends continue, diarists may soon outnumber their readers. "In the future," says Justin Hall, "everyone will be famous to 15 people."
at the time i told him that my friend kathleen said that, and i wanted her attributed for it. i wrote him about it after the article appeared, he replied, " Sorry about that last quote. I really wanted to get it in, and I couldn't introduce a new character. You did say it to me--- even if you didn't originally coin that phrase, or the one its based on." he was a nice enough guy.
Mondo 2000, number 16, winter 96/97, from an interview by R U Sirius on electric minds:
"Don't let his unconsciously pretty face and generally sweet disposition fool you. Twenty-two-year-old Justin Hall can be a sharp young smartass when he wants to be. The kid virtually conquered the web with "Justin's Links from the Underground." In those prehistoric days of the web about a year or so ago, you might have heard his name whispered in awe among net surfers. Too young to have a Curriculum Vitae, he may never need one in the conventional sense."November 22-30, 1996, discovery channel online, i was interviewed about "the future" over the phone by neal conan of npr with Marisa Bowe and Douglas Rushkoff. parts of the discussion were experpted online: 11/22 11/23 11/24 11/25 11/26 11/27 11/28
"There's No Page Like Home," don oldenberg wrote about me in the washington post, Tuesday, July 23, 1996, an article about diarists/personal pages. "Hall and others like him are at the forefront of an on-line cultural trend that may one day soon give must of us our 15 bytes of fame on the Internet." doug and his movie are mentioned too, he honours me with this nice quote: "He is sort of the human embodiment of the spirit of the Internet," [doug] says. "What he does touches on so many issues of privacy and free speech and self-disclosure. It's like somebody has a cable TV access program and has made a Hollywood movie."
NewsWeek summer 1996, they had a cyberscope piece on my roadtrip, with a picture of ash that everyone thought was me. i don't have tattoos! they mentioned something about jack kerouac/on the road of the web or something. i think they printed my url at least. i think i recieved that placement because a swarthmore friend jason zengerle who worked at newsweek mentioned me/my trip to them. thanks jason!
jon katz's book "Virtuous Reality : How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett" has a three page profile of me, my work in terms of media ownership, i think. i want to buy a copy of this book. i come right before larry king in his media listing - now i'm curious why. any comparison? my brother thinks i should have a talk show.
a haverford college professor of psychology, doug davis, used me in his class Freud and the Web: Culture and Personality in Cyberspace. it looks like the first week on freud is entitled, "Sigmund Freud, meet Justin Hall." the online syllabus is dated fall 1996.the los angeles times, 21 october 1996, "Internet Caught by the Tale," by Mary Purpura and Paolo Pontoniere. Then I was a student at Brown University. red herring issue 36 from october 1996 refers to me as "a sometime buddhist" and calls my website "cultish" in an article about electric minds - "not knowing what you don't know."
sauce*box, an online "journal of literary erotica," posted the courting of miss tate in their summer 1996 issue, and moment in their fall 1996 issue.
from february 1996, pc magazine online, don wilmott
february 5, 1996 philadelphia inquirer, part of a story on 24 hours in cyberspace.
free weekly LA View, January 5-11, 1996, "webshot '95," douglas m. mohney considers mine 5th of ten dementedly creative pages:
5) Justin's Links from the UndergroundInternet Underground magazine, I wrote a 403 Forbidden column, "sex in context: forget kids and cyberporn, let's confront our prudish culture" for their first issue, dated december 1995. i was also listed as a contributing editor for a few issues i think. they folded within eighteen months.
http://www.links.net/
Justin has sold out to the estab-
lishment, having been published in
Rolling Stone and become a Howard
Rheingold "discovery." However, his
material is still cutting edge.
Rolling Stone, issue 722, November 30, 1995, I wrote a half page piece for their "Cyber Nation" issue. i summed up my path to personal web publishing nirvana and encouraged others to settle the turf. they neglected to print my URL, instead my e-mail address, listed as "justin@cyborganic.con" They tried. (This issue also included the "Webheads on Ramona Street" Jeff Goodell portrait of Cyborganic).
MultiMedia Reviews sent me issue Number 6 from japan with a letter in japanese thanking me for my help, but i can't find anything i did inside for the life of me. maybe if i could read japanese...
Digital Boy, don't know which number or date, had an interview with
Club Web Platinum
- "Justin Hall
- A Peace Fighter
- from Underground,
- He uses Internet!"
talk about appropriation
smiling pictures of me at cyborganic
my image in a japanese magazine
wearing a t-shirt with a kanji-esque tao inspired character on it.
one shot blown up and contrasted so I look like a pimply teenager
- but they got my URL right,
The New Yorker, "Home on the Net," October 16th, 1995, John Seabrook patched together a few of my net/culture rants into a paragraph quote in his exploration of budding new culture. A version of this piece appeared in his book Deeper as well.
Rolling Stone, October 19, 1995, "Welcome to the Information Superdorm," J.C. Herz said "Part P.T. Barnum, part Johnny Appleseed, Hall is wide-eyed about technology, and firmly convinced of its power to give everyone a creative outlet."
Esquire mentioned me in connection with sex sites, I don't recall when or who done it.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 4, 1995, A cybernetic brew, by Colin Covert.
howard has a page on his site calling me his guru, from the summer of 1995.
Playboy magazine, July 1995, page 48, brief mention for fuck.com, by Chip somebody.
Digital Boy (Japanese), issue eight, june 21 1995
Internet World April 1995, in A Walk on the Weird Side, by Eric Richardson, a moving review indeed. Doesn't mention much, misquotes my lede, but picks up on my mention of Internet World beating me to Dan's Gallery of the Grotesque.
I wrote a piece publish the spew: the way of a web publisher, for Wired 3.03, march 1995. thanks to kristin spence.
I've been reviewed by the Point Communications Corp (top 5%):
If you're into the dark side of the Net culture, this is your guide to strange sites and sounds. Some are off-color, others merely off-center. Clever (and off-color) commentary by Justin, a student at Swarthmore College who must be skimping a little on study hall these days. The page has its detractors: "graphically challenged" and "sicko" are two comments we've heard. On the other hand, there's a lot of data here. Not for the faint of heart (and quite proud of it).Wall Street Journal (8 February 1995) "Electronic Erotica: Too Much Traffic," by Jared Sandberg, page B1,B8, "Another problam is that the hard-core images eat up computer memory and disk storage. "The files are too big. You never have enough space on your hard drive," complains Swarthmore College sophomore Justin Hall. He should know: He operates his own World Wide Web site on the Internet - a virtual "pornocopia," as he calls it." I talked to this guy for over forty minutes, and this was the most insightful thing I had to say about sex online? Don't believe it folks - I wasn't even referring to my sex page when I mentioned pornocopia. Talk about a cursory reading! I made some better comments, but all the ones he laughed at, he said he couldn't print. What's the use of that?
New York Times (3 January 1995) "Site-Seeing on the World Wide Web," a tour of web pages - one for each letter of the alphabet. Somehow L stood for Legal, not Links, but whatever, I'm happy. "L. Legal Beat. Current cases in cyberspace. http://www. wired. com/Staff/ justin/ dox/law.html"
Internet World (Jan 1995), In "The Best and Worst of 1994," Kenny Greenberg mentions Justin's Links from the Underground as the Best hotlist - "Where else on the Net can you find the Ollie North page?"
Addicted To Noise, December 1994: Senior Editor of the On the Web section - for one issue.
Internet World (Nov/Dec 1994), "Going Graphical: There's no place like a home page," by Kenny Greenberg, page 103, "For the adventurous who don't mind a little foul language, try Justin's Links to the Underground."
Wired 2.10 (October 1994), "The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun," by Gary Wolf, page 121, under Cool Web Pages: A Sampler: "Links from the Underground. Links and commentary providing an alternative view of the web." I was working there at the time, I urged my URL on them.
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