Re: BEg2 chapter 5 - “Winnie List”

[David Morris]

Can you find even a trace of it on the internet *somewhere? anywhere?*. I
couldn’t.  And the internet is, sorta, *forever*!!!  And the Pynchonwicki
doesn’t provide any backup for that claim.  I mean, this Winnie’s List
would have to have been VERY public for it to have worked.  And this wasn’t
a market for anything illegal.

On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 3:35 PM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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”)
>>>
>>