bOING bOING #5 (Boulder CO)

I have to admit that about half the time, I had no idea what they were talking about in any given issue of bOING bOING. The other half, I was simply confused. Editor Mark Frauenfelder was way ahead of his time with this cyber-oriented zine, discussing subjects like smart drugs and "memes" and software and interviewing evolutionary agents like Peter Lamborn Wilson years before the Worldwide web and the Internet explosion. I always enjoyed the zine's book and zine reviews; a lot of their software reviews were more Mac-oriented and I've always been a hardcore PC hacker. An interesting start for a zine that would only grow better as time went along. These days, Frauenfelder is still on the cutting edge, editing the uber-popular bOING bOING blog and writing books like Rule The Web.

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VITAL STATISTICS:
• Issue #5
• 1991, no month given
• B&W, 40-pages (plus squigley color covers)
• Style: cyber zine

ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
Peter Lamborn Wilson
"A Memetic Lexicon"
"The Death Mask of F.W. Murnau"
Smart Drugs
"Underground," fiction by Paul Di Filippo
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