W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history
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jauntywundrkind
13 days ago
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No Pychon references? The underground postal service in Crying of Lot 49.

That's what Nullsoft (of Winamp fame)'s P2P app WASTE was named in reference to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE

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cempaka
12 days ago
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Some of his paranoid-aware readers believe Pynchon's W.A.S.T.E. may have been an early reference to the ARPANET/internet, which (in this reading of events) Pynchon was read into some of the plans for.
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smitty1e
12 days ago
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Did you miss my reply?
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smitty1e
13 days ago
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We Await Silent Tristero's Empire
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