Now that I’m affiliated with Harvard I get to use their libraries, which is exciting enough. I took this book out of the Widener and holy cow will you look at that. The catalog record doesn’t say anything about it being signed. They do not even know what they have.

Here's a paleofuture for you. I'm reading a @NASA report from 1987, as one does. There was a survey done at the American Astronomical Society & Canadian Astronomical Society 1987 joint meeting. Among other things, it asked what "remote data access network" was used on respondents' campuses. BITNET was the clear winner.

Looking through some old National Academies Press reports and came across this absurdly melodramatic cover https://doi.org/10.17226/4765

Found in a copy of Idoru that I clearly haven’t read in a while. Idoru (published 1996) was the first thing I ever bought on Amazon. Probably using Netscape Navigator. Back when Amazon was still just a bookstore, my favorite search engine was still AltaVista, and dinosaurs roamed the earth.