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May 24, 1997 — In 1985, Mark J. Welch designed the Generic Adventure Game System (GAGS), a computer programming tool for creating “text adventure” games for MS-DOS computers. GAGS was released as “shareware” in 1985 and enhanced several times in 1986 and 1987.

In 1987, David Malmberg made substantial enhancements to the Generic Adventure Game System, which was renamed the Adventure Game Toolkit (AGT). Read more »

Comments Off on The Ad Network of the Future

I wrote this article in April 1997, in response to problems I perceived in existing advertising networks. Read more »

Comments Off on How to Make Money from Web Site Banner Advertising

I wrote this article in 1996-1997 for an audience of “web publishers” seeking revenue from their web sites. Read more »

Comments Off on Web Ad Networks: Pooled Ad Programs, Brokers, and Banner Exchanges

I created this outline of “web advertising” issues in March 1997, for inclusion in the program materials for an industry conference where I was a featured speaker.  It is written primarily for an audience of advertisers (merchants) and people in the advertising industry. Read more »

Comments Off on The Commonwealth Network

This was my evaluation (in March 1997) of “The Commonwealth Network,” the first broad-reach web-site banner advertising network.  Read more »

Comments Off on Creating a Lawyer’s Web Site

What Results Have I Obtained from My Web Site? Read more »

Comments Off on The Weekend IBM.NET Almost Died

How A Revenge Spammer Abused IBM.NET — The “El Cheepo” / “Thinning Hair” (Yuri Rutman) Spams Read more »

Comments Off on The Internet Banner Network (IBN) Scam (1996)

(December 29, 1996) “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Read more »

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Every once in a while, someone asks me why I chose to become a lawyer, and I am usually uncomfortable with the question. We all choose our careers for a wide variety of reasons, and each of us is motivated by an uncountable number of events and impressions.

But invariably, when I think about why I chose to attend law school, and when I think about what I would like to achieve as an attorney, I am drawn back to a newspaper article I read in the spring of 1980, while I was a freshman in college. Read more »

Comments Off on Interramp, PSInet and Pipeline: Heaven for Junk Email Spammers

Over the past few months, I have received a steadily increasing number of “junk email“ messages from Interramp, PSInet, and Pipeline… Read more »