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W.a.s.t.e. Not: John Scanlan looks for the future in the dustbins of history

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

21 hours agojauntywundrkind

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.

15 hours agocempaka

Did you miss my reply?

17 hours agosmitty1e

We Await Silent Tristero's Empire