Re: BEg2 chapter 5 - “Winnie List”

[Michael Bailey]

That’s what I was thinking too, but apparently there actually was a “Winnie
List” (per Pynchonwiki)
used by people working on the nascent WWW.

Like a p-list, sort of. Except not for hire. But parts of the pynchonwiki
description ring a bell, I say, speaking as one of the “quirky blowhards”
(-;


*Winnie list*
The New York World Wide Web Workers e-mail list — the WWWNY (or “Winnie”)
list — circulated among 2,000 Web professionals in New York in the web's
early days, and was a good place to hunt for freelance assignments. The
Winnie list also provided a forum for a lot of quirky blowhards to rant
endlessly about Aggro Software’s browser or attack NetScathe’s flaky table
support &c &c.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 8:58 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://anji.com
> *“Anjie’s List is now Anji.”*
>
> The Winnie List is an obvious reference to  “Anjie’s List” the very
> successful internet handyman-for-hire (cheap) website.  Playing with the
> urban dictionary meaning of a “Winnie,” it is just a silly spoof by Pynchon
> on the whole concept of a day-worker brokerage website, denigrating coders
> into “Winnies” for hire, cheap, via the internet.
>
> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 3:28 AM Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Driscoll Padgett is a freelance Web-page designer, “making it up as I go
>> along, just like everybody else,” also temping as a code writer, for $30
>> an
>> hour—she’s fast and conscientious, and the word has got around, so she’s
>> more or less steadily in demand,
>> though now and then there’s a gap in the rent cycle where she’s had to
>> resort to the Winnie list, or index cards stuck up next to dumpsters, and
>> so forth. Loft parties sometimes, though that’s usually for the cheap
>> drinks.
>>
>>           The Winnie List?
>>
>>          Mark Kohut pointed me to Urban Dictionary, but it didn’t seem
>> like
>> any of their entries described a nexus for employment, unless I missed
>> something.
>> […]
>> *Winnie list*
>
>
>> The New York World Wide Web Workers e-mail list — the WWWNY (or “Winnie”)
>>
>