object lesson: link post: IVIV 60's mythmaking: Lords of the Revolution series

[Doug Millison]

http://laughingsquid.com/lords-of-the-revolution-on-vh1/

Gloss:
1. Laughing Squid is a web site with a whimsical name.
2. vh1 is the name of a TV channel.
3. Lords of the Revolution appears to be a series of programs "on vh1".
4. This Pynchon-L participant has contextualized the link post with  
"IVIV 60's mythmaking" indicating that the posted link has something  
to do with IVIV, in a "mythmaking" context.
5. By providing the necessary html code, http:// and .com, the post  
includes the technical infrastructure necessary to link to a page on  
the World Wide Web, after navigating a series of Tubes, where further  
clues may be gleaned.

Drill-down:
After launching and editing Morph's Outpost, I moved into WWW  
publishing.  I personally looked through several tens of thousands of  
web sites, early in 1996, in order to select the 15,000 that my team  
of 25 writers reviewed for TheAngle.com, an experimental Internet  
directory created to showcase the 1:1 customization technology from  
dot.com boom high-flyer, Broadvision, and have been involved with the  
Web as a publishing medium ever since the pre-Google era. We may have  
pioneered the concept of offering Web site visitors a way to customize  
the user interface according to their personal preferences, and we  
combined computer language algorithms and human editors to provide a  
Web search experience that was ahead of its time.  A lot of people  
were doing a lot of things in the creative ferment that characterized  
those glorious early years out on the Information Superhighway, I  
don't mean to claim more than our share of the glory. But we were  
there, too, while it was happening.

 From Broadvision I moved on Adobe.com  as managing editor, then  
helped David Siegel with the 2d edition of his breakthrough book,  
Creating Killer Web Sites.  Siegel claims to have put the first .jpg  
image on a Web site.  He also created the Tekton font, for all you  
trivia completionists. He also created what may be the first blog, his  
Web diary, which embarrassed the heck out of the people who worked for  
him at the time I was editing CKWS, 2nd Edition.  While I'm at it I'll  
say that my co-author and I anticipated much of the Web 2.0 a.k.a.  
Social Web in our book Firebrands: Building Brand Loyalty in the  
Internet Age.

If the Internet and Web are elements of some kind of plot designed to  
sap the precious bodily fluids of American and other youth, then I  
should probably be rounded up and shot with the rest of the crew  
responsible for helping to make it what it is.

Laughing Squid covers a San Francisco scene that includes people who  
were part of the Morph's Outpost scene, back in the day.

For these and other reasons, I'm interested in the way that Pynchon  
presents the Internet in IV.

Dave the M (remixed):
"Lesson is, is it takes all kinds."

http://morphsoutpostonthedigitalfrontier.blogspot.com/