Re: BEg2 chapter 5 - “Winnie List”

[Michael Bailey]

https://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/labels/Netslaves.html

Got to scroll down quite a bit.

The pynchonwiki poster, turdraker, looks to’ve copied it verbatim.

The whole site is kinda interesting, imho




On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 3:47 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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”)
>>>>
>>>