$2600 Vol. 35, No. 1 - Staff Editor-in-Chief: Emmanuel Goldstein Associate Editor: Bob Hardy Layout and Design: Skram Cover: Dabu Ch'wald Office Manager: Tampruf Infrastructure: flyko Network Operations: phiber Broadcast Coordinator: Juintz IRC Admins: beave, koz, r0d3nt Inspirational Music: Einstürzende Neubauten, Jandek, Iggy Pop, Sigur Rós, Kendrick Lamar, Tricycle, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein Shout Outs: Students of Parkland, Waveframe, Christo & Dora, Mojo, Starman, and the dogs of Chisinau, c3noc, abcdzyne, Ross-Tech, Tamp & Pull RIP: Felipito, Barlow, Bike So Good, Lovebug Starski "Will the Internet become a theater, crowded will all of Humanity, where demagogic institutions cry 'fire' every time the wish to incite a mob? Will the Global Village be dominated, like so many other small towns, by schadenfreudal busybodies who build their own self-esteem from the wreckage of others whose reputations they've destroyed? So far, this has not happened because most of those in Cyberspace had a sense of responsibility about the preservation of a social contract nor enough stake in its preservation to motivate self-restraint?"
--- John Perry Barlow, September 1998, from a piece written for Wired which was rejected for being "too political."