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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Old Mags
Date: Sun, 19 Ago 07 23:20:21 GMT

While doing aditional cleaning up of stuff around
the house (and managing to finally setup home WiFi
using my old Bronze and Silver Lucent PCMCIA cards),
I found 2 “historical” (for me) magazines: the first
issue of Wired (premiere issue, 1.1, 1993), with me
later becoming subscriber #352, and the Nov/Dec 1993
issue of Internet World.

http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(009).jpg
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007.jpg

There’s some hilarious stuff inside:

The ad that made me start up Esoterica (local ISP)
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(001).jpg

An article on what is the Internet (note the absence
of HTTP/Web; there wasnt any of that stuff)
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(002).jpg

An article on what is available on the Internet. Once
again note the userfriendly (not!) character based UI
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(003).jpg
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(004).jpg

An article on government information avalaible on the
Internet. Once again note the “advanced” gopher interface
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(005).jpg
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(007).jpg

Ad for the first online bookstore (no, not Amazon). Note
the absence of http:// address (there was no web yet) and
the Internet access info (telnet books.com). Ah the good
old days of interfaces for real men…
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(008).jpg

Hilarious Apple ad for the first Powerbook
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(010).jpg

Stallman was yet to be saved by Linux and the opensource
revolution
http://mv.asterisco.pt/Files/magpics/19082007(011).jpg

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Top 20 Cyberpunk Themed Videoclips
Date: Sun, 19 Ago 07 16:28:21 GMT

Cyberpunk Videoclips
Description: Top 20 Cyberpunk Themed Videoclips

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0E825DF7CE117810

My personal taste and choices. Loosely based on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#Music
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyberpunk_works#List_of_bands

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Commanding Heights
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 07 21:17:21 GMT

A great TV series, backed by a great book and a great
site:

Commanding Heights Intro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB6NW6ynfsw

Site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/

“Commanding Heights” should be compulsive reading
for any entrepreneur or entrepreneurship course.

“Commanding Heights” is indispensible for understanding
the virtue of selfishness and the morality of capitalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivist_philosophy

http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/thompson.html

“The entrepreneur is therefore above all else a man of the mind.
The entrepreneur is the man who is constantly thinking of new
ways to improve the material or spiritual lives of the greatest
number of people.

And what are the social and political conditions which encourage
or inhibit the entrepreneurial mind? The free-enterprise system
is not possible without the sanctity of private property, the
freedom of contract, free trade and the rule of law.

But the one thing that the entrepreneur values over all others
is freedom–the freedom to experiment, invent and produce.”

A Filosofia da Liberdade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7DVlC3kXrM

— MV

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From: mvale…@ruido-visual.pt (Mario Valente)
Newsgroups: mv
Subject: Kraftwerk Are Brilliant
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 07 16:17:21 GMT

Brilliant!, brilliant! site…

http://www.kraftwerk.com/

Brilliant videos…

Kraftwerk – Der Telefon Anruf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQpbH8iMQDo

Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWlgbAc3bbM

Kraftwerk – Neon Lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YCZVeIJ8xk

Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaScyfSHc-Y

Kraftwerk – The Robots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXa9tXcMhXQ

Kraftwerk – The Robots (THE MIX Version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXTZOSWIUU

Kraftwerk – Das Modell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjWGQvke8i4

Kraftwerk – Tour De France
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQz-CZvkY8k

Kraftwerk – Antenna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbgvvzVvNSI

Kraftwerk – Musique Non Stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYUznkZuXa0

— MV