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:CYBERSABER:
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ISSUE 1 A Computer 'Zine May
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Editor:servO(Daniel Stringfield)at 73544,504 on CompuServe
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By:servO *FROM THE EDITOR*
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This is the very first issue of CYBERSABER. This is a 'zine for us,
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the computer people. If you have something to say, or yell, send a ASCII
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version to me on CompuServe at 73544,504(Internet users can send it as
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73544.504@compuserve.com). Almost anything goes. Freely distribute this
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'zine to everyone you know. If you want to be on the list of people who
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get it regularly, e-mail your name and digital address. You can get a disk
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mailed to you if you pay for the disk, postage, and the disk mailer in
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advance. Post copies on your local BBS. And I am sorry for having a fairly
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lousy first issue, but after you start sending in your own material it will
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get better. Send in anything any time you like. A subscription issue will
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be in production soon, so e-mail me if you would like this subscription. A
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self viewing file format with color graphics and various fonts will be at
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your disposal if you are a subscriber. This text version can be downloaded
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on CompuServe from the CYBERFORUM, under ZINES. Thank you for taking the
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time to view this free issue of CYBERSABER.
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*Trade Center*
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|E-mail to servO what you have & price|
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Mini-Case w/250 w/p.s.:$60 or trade for 40M MFM hard drive
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CGA Monitor:$50 or trade for 40M MFM hard drive
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1Node Lantastic AI w/ARCnet board:$60 or trade for 40M MFM hard drive.
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from Daniel Stringfield
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TONS of GIF's : will trade equivalent bytes for anarchy files
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from rEDdragon by way of Daniel Stringfield
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Robotics "How To" manuals: trade for something nice
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CD's: trade for something nice
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from Daniel Stringfield
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*ELL*
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By:servO
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I am creating a new language called ELL. If you want a listing of what
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I have so far, e-mail the request to me. I should have a file compiled
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soon. The truth is, it is not a real "language." I have created short
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(about four characters max, but will increase in size later) "words" the
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have a close meaning to another shortened word. The word 'hate' translated
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to ELL is 'IRS'. You see my point there, they also tend to be funny. The
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phrase 'Can I go to the bathroom?' translates to 'CP', and 'KLEP', coming
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from the word 'kleptomaniac' which means a person who is a compulsive
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thief, translates in english as 'I have to steal'. So you see, it's just
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a fun and funny project I am working on. I have already created a number
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system so you can even count in this new language!(Pretty amazing isn't
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it?)
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*INTERNET*
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By:Nick Rosen
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Imagine an electronic, modern day version of the C19th Grand Tour, but
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instead of a cabin trunk and a steamer, a computer and a modem take today's
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gilded youth wandering past the accumulated culture of western civilization
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to date, gaining enjoyment as well as enlightenment out of the journey
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itself and the diversions available along the way.
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It is a spin-off from the explosive growth of the Internet, the worlds
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biggest computer network, with an estimated 36m subscribers and growing at
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20% a month.
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By connecting to the Internet, the gilded youth can then transfer himself
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to computerized databases all over the world. If the gilded youth is a
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single mother, she could first leave her children at "Kids Cafe" where kids
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from all over the world converse by electronic mail (and teach each other
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hacking, the art of breaking into computers over the phone lines). It is
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maintained by some Academics in Norway. She could also drop into the
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Femnet, started in San Francisco "to provide more demographic balance in
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the online world."
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He could choose to inspect images of a recent archeological dig in
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Leptiminus, Tunisia. He could perhaps, compare it to others found in
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Pompeii or Sicily. He could then skip electronically to the contents of the
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Australian National Gallery, or the Israeli collection at the Smithsonian
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or any of thousands of points in "the Dataverse" where arts and literature
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are stored. The experimental Australian section currently includes 2,800
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images and their associated short records dealing with the history of
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printmaking from the 15th century to the end of the 19th century, and a few
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on the classical architecture of the Mediterranean. 2,500 images of
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classical architecture & architectural sculpture are shortly being added to
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this collection.
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A more recent and permanent addition, is the Fine Art Forum Gallery which
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will be showing a new exhibition each month. It opened last month with a
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show of 28 paintings by Australian artist Wendy Mills. There is an
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electronic door from the Fine Art Gallery to the Fractal Gallery, showing
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computer generated art, and from there to the Mandlebrot Gallery, dedicated
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to the memory of the great mathematician.
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Exhausted by this succession of images, our traveler could take comfort
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from a good book -- Project Guthenburg has placed the first few hundred, of
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a planned 10,000 classic, out, of copyrighted books in an electronic
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library which includes Plato and Alice In Wonderland and Thomas Mann's
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Magic Mountain. Since much of the big work is still done by enthusiasts and
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academics, the choice of subjects reflect their interests.
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The Internet was started by academics, which is why much of the data is
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still relatively lofty. It is increasingly being used as a means of
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entertainment and business transactions (everything from porn to cheap
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airline tickets), but the core use is still for researchers and those with
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enquiring minds. There are over 7,000 special interest groups covering
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everywhere from Archeology to Zen Bhuddism, to Beavis and Butthead jokes.
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If your gilded youth wanted to make a comment about one of the books from
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the Guthenburg project, he could place it in one of the book discussion
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groups. If his comment were on any general interest, a lively discussion
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would die up and then fade away as others replied and debated the original
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message.
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Computer programmers are turning the Internet from a resource for the
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expert computer user into a seamless web of connections for anyone to
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search for their own special interests without knowing or caring what the
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steps the computer is taking to fulfill their needs.
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The result is a culture pot-pourri which can place an illuminated C15th
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manuscript one electronic door step way from the KGB's archives, or put the
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Smithsonian Museum next door to the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz with sound
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recordings of the author reading his own work.
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For moments when the Grand Tour called for something less highbrow, the
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Virtual Nightclub, a temporary installation in January allowed visitors to
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walk through images of different rooms, listen to records and look at the
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latest fashions. MTV DJ Adam Curry has a free gossip column called
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Cyber-Trash, which last week broke the story that the brothers of Patrick
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Swayze and Sylvester Stallone had starred in a soft porn film in order to
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cash in on their famous names. If our gilded youth doubted the story, he
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could E-mail Mr. Curry (who happens to be in New York) and receive
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confirmatory details within hours.
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Music is already well-represented on the Internet. There is a list of over
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200,000 records, complete with reviews and links to others by the same
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composer or band. There have been some experimental chamber concerts with
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each member of the orchestra in a different place, and among the many music
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discussion groups is one for guitarists who want to exchange technical
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details. It has been become a forum where some leave tablature of their
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favorite songs. The earliest form of written music, tablature works by
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indicating the fret number of the note. It is not copyright protected in
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the same way as the current notation. London band the "Digital Nomads" who
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produced the first pirate disc in the Philips CD-I format have become the
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latest to move their activities to the online world of the Internet.
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