Austin Free-Net is a non-profit corporation providing public access to the Internet and emerging technologies for all Austin residents, especially those who don’t have computers in their homes. The Free-Net is a community-driven project.
CSW Communications, Inc. was a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Central and South West Corporation. Through programs such as Customer Choice & Control, CSW Communications offered communications-based energy management solutions and other communications services which provided a path for an expanded relationship with customers and allowed customers greater choice and control over their electric usage.
Digital Mystix, Inc was an advanced developer of Web applications for the Internet and Intranets. Its highly skilled team utilized its technical and multimedia knowledge to offer cutting edge products with efficiency and precision. Digital Mystix offered a wide spectrum of interactive products and services for education and corporate development.
FringeWare, founded in 199 by Jon Lebkowsky and Paco Nathan, was one of the early commercial sites on the Internet. It experimented with mixing subcultural analysis and ecommerce, hence the name “fringe” plus “ware”.
DANCING WITH THE VIRTUAL DERVISH: WORLDS IN PROGRESS – by Marcos Novak & Friends
“In its present disincarnation, consists of a series of interconnected cyberspace ‘chambers.’ Each chamber is a world unto itself, but each chamber has portals to every other chamber, forming a fully connected lattice. As a work, it is non-hierarchical, non-teleological, and inherently open-ended. A person navigating through these chambers is free to explore a series of landscapes and to discover their apparent or hidden features. It is unlikely that anyone, myself included, will ever exhaust the variety of subtle algorithmic wonders that may be encountered, since they are intimately related not only to the logic of their programs, but to the unforeseeable circumstances and patterns of each person’s passage through the spaces.” -M.N.
Supercircuits provides the world’s smallest video cameras, transmitters and recorders.
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.
Tomorrow’s Women in Science and Technology (TWIST) was an Austin, Texas-based non-profit corporation. Their mission was to promote science and math education and career planning for girls and women. TWIST’s volunteer staff is composed of Austin-area scientists, engineers, librarians, business people, teachers, writers, artists, and parents working together to achieve TWIST’s goals.
Zilker Internet Park specialized in connecting both small and home businesses to the Internet.
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