For the Homebrew Computer Club, the WELLbeings,

Barlow, Gilmore and Kapor, Woz and Tom Jennings and

Tim Pozar and The Little Garden, the alt.* hierarchy

and FidoNet, the hardware hackers and the dip switchers,

bunnie Huang and Seymour Papert. For Claire Evans,

and her magesterial Broad Band (without which

this book would not exist). And of course, for my parents,

who raised me right, with an acoustic coupler and

a teletype terminal on the kitchen table.