On February 20th 1994 the Seattle Times published a story featuring my husband Tom Sparks as an infonaut on the web for their Sunday segment “Living on the Internet” written by Bill Dietrich. At the time Tom surfed MUD’s, MOO’s and the rest of the internet from our kitchen closet on our Mac II ci (with a whopping 105 mg hard drive).
Here’s a link to an edited version of the article(I’ll buy a cocktail for anyone who can find the original).
Fast forward 19 years… Happy to be digitally mobile, Tom is still an infonaut within the gazillion frontiers, nations and social experiments of the internet; leaving a wake of sites, memberships and alias’ in the digital dust. Current favorites include social sites Tumblr and Instagram, with regular visits to his 100+ linked RSS feed for the news.
BTW- Tom has always been my litmus test for what’s cool, a trend, or anything that might have a long tail on the internet. We make a great team.
P.S- The article comment about me being disinterested in internet after work was accurate. In 1994 the internet was mostly text based and was not a recreational activity for me; however I was then and still am a proponent of its potential.