Who said you can’t review a 13 year old book and make it seem fresh and hip?

That’s what Jason Kottke did with Snowcrash.

I actually bought cases of this book and gave it away to friends. Itr was all but required reading at SGI back in the day (’92-’94) - back when SGI was the coolest place to work at - anywhere.

In fact this book directly parallels my ‘post-Macromedia’ life as it came out - just as I was leaving. I remember writing…..

“Stephenson achieves in the first 3 pages of Snowcrash - what Wm. Gibson was never able to achieve - a believeable cyberspace.”

Adam Curry named his web site - Metaverse - after Snowcrash. I know - I was there - I helped him name it.

OK - here’s a surprise quiz: “Did you know that SixApart has been shipping RVW support in their Lists feeds?”

Now you know.

Congrats to Alf Eaton on that one.

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