Notices by Lori Emerson (loriemerson@post.lurk.org), page 2

it is wild, and sometimes surprisingly difficult, to make palpable the cyberlibertarianism and techno-utopianism of the 90s for 18-20 year olds. so many times this semester I've felt like I'm telling them bedtime stories about ye olde internet while I watch their enthralled faces...#othernetworks

it's 1894. if you want to let someone know they are annoying because they failed to read your telegram closely enough, send the code "Butment." meaning: "You do not answer my message understandingly. Please read and translate it carefully and then reply." #othernetworks

@fishidwardrobe @ntnsndr it is - it appears in this Cable Code index from 1894 https://archive.org/details/adamscablecodex00cogoog/page/n5/mode/1up?view=theater

@fishidwardrobe @ntnsndr yes, true. I was reading your post with my background in avant garde poetry where a made up word is still a word

with the usual relief and happiness to be back working on #othernetworks today, I wrote an entry on Project West Ford which honestly is one of the most bizarre networks I've come across...which is saying a lot. Developed by the MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a strategy to maintain radio comms in the event of a nuclear attack from Russia, Project West Ford was a belt of 480 million copper dipole needles that created an artificial ionosphere around the earth. It lasted between 1963 and 1966 and space debris from the project is probably still orbiting earth...