Return-Path: From: cgdemarc@ai.mit.edu (Carl de Marcken) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 94 15:21:26 EDT To: all-ai Subject: GSB, Friday June 3rd 5:30 PM, 7AI. Want to be a part of the pop culture of the 90's but just can't seem to get started? Well, jump on the information highway and SHIFT INTO HIGH GEAR with "The Best of the Internet" hit messages from the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. Whether you're just "logging on" for the first time or were there at Woz's original "Us" concert, "The Best of The Internet" has the messages you want to read. With over 600 megabytes of your favorite text of yesterday and today, "The Best of the Internet" has it all. Here are just a few of the fascinating messages you'll receive To: president@whitehouse.gov From: beavis@mtv.com Subject: let anthrax due new nashunul anthum!!!! To: all.newsgroups From: an21506@anon.penet.fi Subject: Re: Make $1,000,000,000 instantly! To: comp.ai From: B1FF@BIT.NET Subject: T0DALY RAD KOMPUTUR BRANE -- RUNZ ON VIC-20?!?!?! To: all-ai@ai.mit.edu From: philg@martigny.ai.mit.edu Subject: more about my life To: vice-president@whitehouse.gov From: nobody@nsa.gov Subject: another clipper problem you DIDN'T hear about Many of the messages are private letters from famous stars, all declassified and available for the first time thanks to the public nature of the national information infrastructure and "The Best of the Internet". Reminisce while reading about Bill Gates first steamy love affair and scan the sultry and revealing late-night e-mail traffic from Bill Clinton to members of the Arkansas Highway Patrol. Want to know what messages left Dallas for Havana in 1963? You'll find out if you buy "The Best of the Internet", and you'll be frightened by the amazing cover-up by high government officials! Here's what some famous people might be saying about "The Best of the Internet": Priscilla Presley -- Elvis would have wanted it this way. Jack Kerouac -- Buy "The Best of the Internet" and the information highway will speed you back to Route 66! Doogie Howser, MD -- I'd go on a really cool date with any teeny-bopper that owned "The Best of the Internet". Mick Jagger -- My mouth is open at this incredible offer! MIT scientist -- 4-headed baby-savant found alive after 20 years in spaceship at bottom of Bermuda triangle. If you act now and are one of the first 1000 callers, we will include free with "The Best of the Internet" a genuine imported artistic interpretation of THE INTERNET WORM, hand signed by Robert Tappan Morris. This one-of-a-kind gold-like souvenir of the devastating virus that brought the electronic world to a halt comes with its own wood-textured display stand and makes a striking statement in any home. "The Best of the Internet" is available for a limited time on both 1/4 inch tape and CD-ROM, for only $29.95. Call 1-800-UNIX789 with a credit card number or send check or money order to Graduate Student Beer Acquisitions and Profiteering 545 Technology Square, NE43-800b Cambridge MA, 02139 Operators will be standing by on Friday, June 3rd, from 5:30 PM on in the 7th floor playroom.