"texts" archive, from wps.com's gopher server

the contents here date from the early 1990's. today they seem childishly primitive, but if you weren't there, you cannot know how profoundly things have changed since then. -- tomj february 2012

The WPS text archive.

Many of these are slight conversions of plain text, and may not be visually interesting.

• Richard Loranger committed these texts specifically for net viewing.
• Hakim Bey's pamphlet Radio Sermonettes in it's full glory.
• The Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim Bey
• Uncle Bill Burroughs tells a short tale, excerpted from NAKED LUNCH.
• ESQUIRE magazine interview of W.S. Burroughs and David Cronenberg.
• 1961 interview of WSB by Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg (transcription: Flesh)
• 1978 interview of WSB by a shrink named John C. Kramer, M.D.
• A quick fix from W.S. Burroughs.
• Brief review of the recording Spare Ass Annie
• A discography (sic) of WSB works.
• The complete text of WSB's THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION, transcribed by Flesh [25 January 2005, removed by request of the copyright holder].
• Vannevar Bush describes in detail hypermedia -- in 1945.

• The Eris Project
• The English Server
• The Electronic Text Center
• The Wiretap.spy.com's Classic Books