New York Archives - Patrick K. Kroupa

The Joy of Cybersex

by Patrick K. Kroupa | Feb 26, 2016 | 0

An Underground Guide to Electronic Erotica by Nancy Tamosaitis Liberate your body and your mind as you encounter the intensely cerebral (“I think, therefore I am”) to the overtly sexual (“I think I love my...

Tricks of the Internet Gurus

by Patrick K. Kroupa | Jan 8, 2016 | 0

Internet Gurus: Patrick Kroupa by Tod Foley “The correct solution to the ‘quest,’ is, of course, that there is no solution. There is nothing you are looking for, except for you, and once you realize this, you...

Computer Shopper

by Patrick K. Kroupa | Jan 7, 2016 | 0

MindVox October, 1993 MindVox is a BBS with even more extensive Internet access than Nyx. The drawback is that it isn’t free. But even though full Internet access requires subscribing, guests are given ample opportunity to...

BusinessWeek

by Patrick K. Kroupa | Jan 7, 2016 | 0

Warding Off The Cyberspace Invaders By now, you’ve surely heard of Kevin D. Mitnick, the notorious hacker who was hunted down and arrested by FBI agents on Feb. 15. His crimes: a string of network break-ins that included...

Boardwatch

by Patrick K. Kroupa | Jan 7, 2016 | 0

MindVox December 1992 An increasingly popular niche online revolves around smallish UNIX systems offering dialup access out one door and Internet access out the other. These aren’t the regional networks setup to offer host...

MindVox in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction

by Patrick K. Kroupa | Jan 7, 2016 | 0

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for Algernon, and...

Wired – MindVox on the Rocks

by Patrick K. Kroupa | Jan 3, 2016 | 0

MindVox on the Rocks by John Alderman 1997 After a crash in early March disabled the celebrated BBS MindVox, users received a message that the system wouldn’t go live until 1 April, and after that its unstable hard disks...