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Great read! > Gibson and Stephenson had taught me that the messenger, the mailman, was a vital romantic figure. It seemed weird to me that both Snow Crash and
by hcs 3y ago
Great read!
> Gibson and Stephenson had taught me that the messenger, the mailman, was a vital romantic figure.
It seemed weird to me that both Snow Crash and Virtual Light had main characters who were couriers. When I read Virtual Light I thought "oh, so this is what Snow Crash was parodying," but nope, it came out a year later. I didn't grow up in a city so that job was something I only encountered in fiction (aside from pizza and Chinese delivery).
- marttt 3y agoThe comments for the parent article included an excellent longread on bike messenger culture in Boston: https://web.archive.org/web/20050314012405/http://www.bikesummer.org/1999/results/bostonMessengers.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20050314012405/http://www.bikesu... Also, that early 2000s internet was indeed a fine place to be in. Simple pages with well-crafted long-form, using Verdana -- what more do you need.