<nettime> first message on nettime? (May 31, 1995)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

materials on the pre-history of nettime
(one of the) first messages posted to 'nettime', dated May 31, 1995:

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1. What defines a city? Images, walls or rules?

2. Why is the home page a comon term? Surfing from Homepage to Homepage
instead of wandering throug semiotic deserts?

3. What are the black and white spaces of traditional writing today? Do
they have an equivalent in the Internet?

4. Is Data-Transfer comunication, and is comunication a sign of live?

5. Who finances art in the Internet?

Nils Roeller
KHM Koeln
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