The Electronic Vernacular

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Infrastructure, Interface, Interaction

• Hobbes' Internet Timeline
• The Virtual Tourist
• O'Reilly Internet Survey
• Komar & Melamid: The Most Wanted Paintings on the Web
• Cyberlore Central

  1. Technology and the Interaction Order

  Collaboration in a Distributed Environment

• Jargon File 3.1.0
• Oracle

  Community

  Netiquette

• Usenet Primer
• Emoticons
• Signatures
• Signature collection
• Boxology
• Emily Postnews
• Flame form
• Chain letter

  Location

• Jazz/Blues
• Where are you?

  Channel

• Cafe # Palestine

  Memory

• Cookie tirade
• Lightbulb jokes
• Useless Pages

  Meta-net

• Cascade
• URouLette
• Mirsky's Worst of the Web
• Compliment Generator
• Surrealist Cyrano Server
• Excuse Generator

  Time

  Calendar Year

• Greetings

  Life cycle

• Birth Announcements
• An Internet Romance
• African Wedding Guide
• A Virtual Memorial Garden
• Jerry Garcia 1942-1995
• The Tombstone Tourist

  2. Mobilizing Diasporic Formations

  Indigenous

• Native Web
• Bill's Aboriginal Links
• Oneida Indian Nation Home Page
• Hawai'i, Independent and Sovereign Nation-State

  Africana

• NetNoir
• World African Network Online
• African American Web Connection
• The CHAINS Doorway

  Jewish

• Virtual shtetl
• Trek-cochavim
• Asian Kashrus
• Chabad Lubavitch in Cyberspace

  Christian

• Immaculate Virgin Mother of God
• Shroud of Turin
• Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus
• Christian Coalition

  Islam

• CyberMuslim
• Al-Hajj
• Hanif's Detailed Page on ISLAM
• Muslim Chat

  Fans

• Lollapalooza
• R.A.T.S.

  3. Political Economy of the Public Sphere

• Art Crimes
• Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary
• Ted Kennedy
• Hate Page of the Week
• Nizkor Project
• American Freedom Coalition
• War Zone, Sarajevo Online
• Hospice--A Photographic Inquiry
• Citizens Against Communist Chinese Propaganda

  4. Heritage, Commemoration, Tourism, Art

• Running the Bulls at Pamplona
• Remembering Nagasaki
• 1002situations a collaborative project to define heimat (German: home, homeland)
• Wrapped Reichstag
• Ada in Flux
• Perry Hoberman Projects
• Fantastic Prayers
• Blast Conversational Archive

Please send your thoughts and suggestions to Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, 721 Broadway, 6th fl., New York, NY 10003.