OnlineCulture

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Part of MeatballWiki's focus is on OnlineCulture. There are many ideas of what constitutes online culture, often encompassing things that aren't strictly net.ethereal like physical HandHeld"s, or even tattoos and tongue piercings. Even fiction, which exists mostly in bound-paper books, can be "OnlineCulture." I refer you to the CyberPunk books here.

Most loosely, you could probably describe OnlineCulture as any culture in a global, technological, futurist context. However, that is really false. Most online culture is American or Japanese or Chinese, and they don't mix very well.

More strictly, you could say OnlineCulture is the culture of OnlineCommunity, or at least online interaction.

To learn about hackers', on-line and system administrators' (and monkey pants!) culture:

select RFCs and FYIs:
- http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/fyi-index.html for an index of the FYIs. Most (all?) of these are also available as RFCs. They are for non-technical people and newbies.
- http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc-activeT.html for an index of the active RFCs. Here's a selected list for the non-technical:
  - RFC 3098 - How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-Mail and Newsgroups or - how NOT to $$$$$ MAKE ENEMIES FAST! $$$$$
  - RFC 3092 - Etymology of "Foo"
  - RFC 2828 - Internet Security Glossary
  - RFC 2775 - Internet Transparency
  - RFC 2664 - FYI on Questions and Answers - Answers to Commonly Asked "New Internet User" Questions
  - RFC 2635 - DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*)
  - RFC 2555 - 30 Years of RFCs
  - RFC 1855 - Netiquette Guidelines
JargonFile
DailyStatic?
LarryWall's StateOfTheOnion? reports
RussellMcOrmond?'s CreationMatters:SoftwareModelsForCoOps
some anarchic but reasonable site
and of course wikis.

The VirtualVolunteeringProject has a page of text and links about OnlineCulture:

http://www.serviceleader.org/vv/culture.html

You might also want to take a look at ESR's Homesteading The Noosphere http://fringe.davesource.com/Fringe/Computers/Philosophy/Homesteading_The_Noosphere/homesteading.html

Books

EllenUllman?'s CloseToTheMachine?
Nerds 2.0
SiliconSnakeOil
HackerCrackdown
SecretsAndLies
TransparentSociety
see also the JargonFile's delightful bibliography: http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/pt03.html#bibliography

And the rest of the MeatballBibliography.

UseNet groups

We should probably move those lists to indices that are better suited, like the MeatballBibliography for the books. Various RFCs are linkable within MeatballWiki directly, ala RFC 42. However, it's best to put those RFCs in context of what they are explaining by linking them from an appropriate page like UniformResourceIdentifier.

A few RFCs are very cultural, but mea culpa I do not have references handy.

Won't people reading MeatballBibliography get overwhelmed if we cram everything in there? -- JohnAbbe

: Will fix that when we get there!

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