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-=/[ Welcome to the ThoughtScape of MindVox ]/=-
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Welcome to MindVox, where you can cavort in a beautiful virtual environment
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populated by a stellar collection of people who get thrown off of every
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other system in Cyberspace; those in attendance include some of the
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luminaries of Cyberpunk literature; the dregs of the art world; out of work
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movie people who will offer you glamorous jobs for no pay; ex-hackers from
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LOD, KOS, and a dozen other affiliations, who played as major role in
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shaping the development of Cyberspace over the last decade; government
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people from all kinds of neat three-letter acronyms who have put quite a few
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of the afore-mentioned crowd through the processes of our delightful legal
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system; lawyers and legislators who want to discuss the deep inner meaning
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and truth behind what the hackers did, what the government does, and what it
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all really means anyway; people who take too many drugs and then write about
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it; people who can't stand people who take drugs; a bunch of reporters,
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journalists, and media people, all gathered here to watch what all the other
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groups are doing; if all this wasn't enough there's also Elvis & Mondo 2000
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-- together again, almost, for the first time.
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Since you have arrived at this nexus point within Cyberspace, you presumably
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have at least a basic idea of what we are, and what you expect to find here.
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You may have read an article by or about one -- or some -- of us, seen a
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clip, attended a conference, or just taken a spin through the electronic
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landscape to see what fate had in mind.
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MindVox was created out of our desire to bring an innovative and creative
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gathering-place to the online universe. While we are a full-featured service
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provider, our main goal is one of creating and constantly evolving a unique
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online community, which combines all the features you'd expect from any
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multi-national commercial network or large-scale public access Unix site
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coupled with a diverse array of individuals and groups who have made their
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home on MindVox, weaving together the threads of countless ideas and dreams,
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into the social fabric of a thriving community.
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To put it simply: we are a PLACE, not just a collection of services grouped
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together with a price list and termed "a system." There is a great deal of
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text available on us in various periodicals, both hardcopy and electronic,
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and a cross-section of this material is available online. People who are
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interested in obtaining further information are encouraged to login as
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guests and peruse the considerable selection of material that is online and
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available for reading or download.
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Whatever has brought you here, you want to find... something. It might be as
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simple as the latest stock quote or a piece of shareware, or it could be as
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complex and all-encompassing as trying to give your life some new level of
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understanding that allows you to find peace of mind.
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Chances are that for most of you, what you desire lies somewhere between the
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two absolutes delineated by NeW WaReZ and online therapy. Although MindVox
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is suitably equipped to supply just about anything you may desire, it's
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primary focal point isn't shareware, or junk that can be found on ftp sites
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and PC boards spread throughout the land.
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MindVox is a storehouse of knowledge pertaining to a wide variety of topics,
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and contains a vast collection of archives that house information on
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everything from software updates, viruses, security news, drug information,
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legal issues effecting Cyberspace, and electronic digests and anthologies .
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. . all the way to a constantly growing library that chronicles the very
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inceptions of Cyberspace, with timeslices of systems dating all the way back
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to 1979 -- the first bulletin boards ever to exist.
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MindVox runs on pretty complex, custom software that makes everything as
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easy to use as possible. The system itself is in a constant state of change
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as we make improvements, implement your suggestions, fix problems stemming
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from complaints, and generally evolve the state-of-the-art in online
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technology.
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We're running on an expensive collection of hi-tech toys, with a lotta
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modems, workstations, hard disks, terminal servers and bandwidth. We are
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BeTTeR, NeWER, FLASHIER, SHinY, BrIGHT and Cheaper ThaN almost anything on
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earth, or in outer space for that matter.
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The closest tangible structure that MindVox could be likened to, is a
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sprawling Tavern at the crossroads of the entire world. Whether you have
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jacked into Vox by dialing a local number with your modem, or stacked
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together a web of net connections that spans the world, you have arrived -
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and while you might make use of the facilities provided, chances are you're
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not here 'cuz you want to flip through an online multimedia encyclopedia, or
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because you're on a quest for that elusive copy of MegaTerminal 92.7Y NOW
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SUPPORTING NEON ANSI MODE and V.FAST!
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You're here because you want to interact with people that you won't find on
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any other system -- pioneers in the fields of computer science, science
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fiction, music, the arts, religion, altered states, and future realities -
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writers, musicians, artists, programmers, designers, directors, actors,
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entrepreneurs, business-people, politicians, chemists, body-builders, and
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Elvis.
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You're bored with the cookie-cutter tract houses that litter the electronic
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landscape with copies of copies. All featuring the same thing, with the same
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environment and the same people. Your cruise through the Datasphere has
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brought you to our gates because it's more interesting to hang out in an
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experimental theatre, recording studio, occult bookstore, headshop, R&D lab
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or club, with people you read about; than a 7-11, with people you're sick
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and tired of.
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Technology has created one of the most unique possibilities in the history
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of human interaction; Anytown USA can jack into Haight-Ashbury in the 60's,
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Soho in the 70's, any place or time that has ever been and places that never
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were and exist only by mutual wish-fulfilment...
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MindVox is a celebration of possibilities
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Jack In, Rock Out and Feed your Head!
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