Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.
View more articles by Gareth BranwynImpossibly geeky bugger streams Second Life through an Apple IIc.
[Sci-fi trivia note: Legend has it that an ad on a bus stop for the Apple IIc was one of William Gibson’s inspirations for the “cyberdecks” in his Sprawl novels. So it’s rather fitting to see a virtual world through its lens, however hopelessly pixelated.]
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