I love the Hartford listserv. The town I grew up in didn't have anything like this, and I wished it did. We had the internet; we just didn't use it like this, like a real community. In 1997, in the fourth grade, I started a chat room on the early chat protocol, "mIRC." My room … Continue reading What about Gaza is germane to Hartford?
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Tales from the crypt(-oparty)
My story on Chicago's CryptoParty scene appeared on the cover of the Chicago Reader last week. Thanks for reading, folks. It's a long piece, so if you get through it, kudos to you. And bravo if you somehow manage to not get lost as you go, with all the techno-terminology. We tried to make it as friendly … Continue reading Tales from the crypt(-oparty)
Brandon Smith 