[1.8]. Stoll himself noted the Maine-Texas allusion.
[1.9]. Irwin Lebow, Information Highway & Byways: From the Telegraph to the 21st Century (Piscataway, New York: IEEE Press: 1995), page 17. A good book. Highly recommended. It even comes with the Walden allusion, although from a rather different perspective from that of Stoll.
[1.10]. Thanks to my friend Andy Oram for the buffalo analogy.
[1.11]. With hypertext links, readers could click on mentions of the Star Tribune and immediately go from my area of the World Wide Web to the one where the newspaper had posted the West article. I didn’t reproduce the material; I just pointed my readers in its direction.
Chapter 2—Business on the Net:
From White Rabbit Toys to “Intel Inside”
[2.1]. The physical description is based on photographs in local newspapers.
[2.2]. Advertising Age, January 9, 1995, page 22 of the “Interactive Media & Marketing” section.
[2.3]. Peter Lewis, “Prodigy is leading its peers onto the World Wide Web,” New York Times, January 18, 1995, page D1.
[2.4]. Interactive Publishing Alert is available for $195 for 12 monthly issues via e-mail, and $245 by regular mail. Contact 71333.1473@compuserve.com or rosalind@harrison.win.net for more information, or write Rosalind Resnick at 1124 Harrison St., Hollywood, FL 33019.