This page is the edition's record of its paper, arranged by the work's own fate. First, what survives: the text on The WELL and the scholarly record it has gathered. Then what does not: the lost ARTS WIRE copy, printed as a loss register. Then the two rooms and the machinery they ran on; the writers in their own words; the reference the glossary stands on; and testimony, marked as testimony. Each entry names what its source establishes for this edition and how it was reached — read in full, read, attested in another record, given as testimony, or surviving as no public document at all — and each entry ends by naming the pages that cite it, so a reader can walk from any claim in the edition back to its paper. The entry grammar is the editions' shared method, and it is worn proudly as such; the arrangement is this work's alone.

Item 8's bibliography is a different instrument: a chain of custody — two witnesses, a campus, its keepers — at item8.org/bibliography.html.

The work on The WELL

Judy Malloy and seven others, My Name is Scibe, The WELL, 1994 (the story page is the title page)
The 1994 work itself: spidered complete for this edition (69 HTML pages and 3 images), read in full, and the source every other entry here serves.
Cited on: Title page, Complete, Colophon, FAQ, Work index, Glossary, About.

ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base, record for the work (the work, 1994)
The scholarly record of the work: ELMCIP carries it, and the edition cites that record for the work's place in the field. Read.
Cited on: Scibe (wiki), Electronic Literature (wiki), About.

Sue-Ellen Case, “Eve’s Apple, or Women’s Narrative Bytes”, MFS Modern Fiction Studies 43.3 (1997), pp. 631–650
The work’s early scholarly reading, published within three years of its making and carried in the notes of Malloy’s own Women, Art, and Technology (MIT Press, 2003). A print reference, its citation verified from those scholarly bibliographies; the essay itself is not openly posted, and no URL is printed in the edition.
Cited on: Scibe (wiki), About.

Anna Couey and Judy Malloy, “Conversation about the Arts Wire Interactive Conference”, in Judy Malloy (ed.), Social Media Archeology and Poetics, MIT Press, 2016, pp. 191–218
A participant’s account of the work’s making: Couey, herself one of the eight writers, recalls scibe appearing on Interactive, the responses beginning unasked, and Malloy’s technique of summarizing each site’s postings for the other; she also records that Scibe was the only artwork produced on Interactive. Read at narrabase.net.
Cited on: Scibe (wiki), About.

Judy Malloy, paper presented at the 2024 Electronic Literature Conference (narrabase.net)
Malloy's own conference account, cited for the work's making, for ARTS WIRE, and for the Collins–Goto credit. Read.
Cited on: Scibe (wiki), ARTS WIRE (wiki), About, Who.

Julianne Nyhan and Andrew Flinn, “The Influence of Algorithmic Thinking: Judy Malloy and Julianne Nyhan”, Springer
The scholarly chapter the Judy Malloy entry cites for her place in computing's history. Read.
Cited on: Judy Malloy (wiki).

“Judy Malloy”, Wikipedia
The reference article cited by the Scibe and Judy Malloy entries for the public record of her life and works. Read.
Cited on: Scibe (wiki), Judy Malloy (wiki).

Judy Malloy, author page, narrabase.net
Malloy's own author page, cited by her entry for the record of her works in her own keeping. Read.
Cited on: Judy Malloy (wiki).

The lost ARTS WIRE copy

The ARTS WIRE edition of My Name is Scibe, served from tmn.com (1994)
The work's other copy, linked out of lexia 66 in 1994. Those addresses are dead and no surviving copy can be reached anywhere the edition can reach; no public document survives to read.
Cited on: Colophon, Scibe (wiki), TMN (wiki), FAQ, Glossary, Lexia 66.

The Wayback Machine, holdings for the tmn.com ARTS WIRE addresses
Consulted as a record and read; the finding is negative — the machine holds only the server's error pages for those addresses, so no ARTS WIRE copy survives there. No URL is printed in the edition.
Cited on: Colophon, Scibe (wiki), TMN (wiki).

The two rooms and their machinery

Metasystems Design Group, press release announcing The Meta Network, March 28, 1983
The company's own announcement of TMN's opening — the period document the TMN, MDG and MDN entries stand on for the launch and its terms. No URL is printed in the edition; read as a print press release.
Cited on: TMN (wiki), Metasystems Design Group (wiki), MDN (wiki).

Odd de Presno, The Online World, appendix
The period directory whose appendix lists Metasystems Design Group — an independent listing the TMN, MDG and MDN entries cite for the company's addresses. Read.
Cited on: TMN (wiki), Metasystems Design Group (wiki), MDN (wiki).

The PDIAL list of Internet access providers (period directory, ibiblio.org)
The period directory of dialup providers: the telnet entry's numbers, services and monthly fees for TMN and The WELL come from this list. Read.
Cited on: Telnet to the Web (wiki).

“About the Interactive Art Conference”, people.well.com
The conference's own description on The WELL — the room this work's ARTS WIRE side lived in, in its host's words. Read.
Cited on: ARTS WIRE (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier (1993)
The period's own book about The WELL's world, cited and quoted by three entries. A print reference, read; no URL is printed in the edition.
Cited on: The WELL (wiki), Metasystems Design Group (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“Caucus 2.7 Menu User's Guide”, April 1994 (caucuscare.com archive)
The period manual for the software the rooms ran on; its worked examples name the people and the telephone number the village entry relies on. Read.
Cited on: The Village (wiki).

Screen Porch, archived company pages, including the Caucus 4.0 release and backgrounder (caucuscare.com archive)
The company's own 1998 pages: the Caucus 4.0 release and the backgrounder naming its users and its people, as the Caucus entry cites them. Read.
Cited on: Caucus (wiki).

CaucusCare, “Caucus Architecture”, caucuscare.com
The software's own architecture page — every displayed page as a CML file — added to the Caucus entry's sources after the source inventory was harvested; it stands here so this list matches the entry as it finally stands. Read.
Cited on: Caucus (wiki).

CML Reference Guide, caucuscare.com
The reference for CML, the language Caucus is written in, defined by its author; added to the Caucus entry's sources after the source inventory was harvested, and listed here on the same terms. Read.
Cited on: Caucus (wiki).

“Caucus 4.1 ‘Bonanza’ Macros”, caucuscare.com
The macros documentation the village entry cites, including its credit to Scott Burns's customizations. Read.
Cited on: The Village (wiki).

Charles Roth, interviewed by Lisa Kimball inside a Caucus conference (2004), caucuscare.com
Roth in conversation, inside the software he wrote — the Caucus and village entries cite the interview for his and Kimball's accounts of the work. Read.
Cited on: Caucus (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Charles Roth, “Entrepreneur Bio”, thedance.net (first-person history, March 15, 2012)
Roth's first-person history of Caucus — Wayne State, Camber-Roth, Screen Porch, CaucusCare — on which the Caucus, telnet and village entries rest. Read.
Cited on: Caucus (wiki), Telnet to the Web (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, “Only Connect”, in The Age of the Network (1995)
The chapter the village entry cites for Kimball's partnership in MDG, her founding of the Electronic Networking Association, and Rheingold's assessment of her. Read.
Cited on: The Village (wiki).

Lisa Kimball, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, November 1, 1993 (Elon University/Pew, “Imagining the Internet”)
The 1993 roundtable quotation the village entry cites for Kimball's facilitation doctrine, preserved in the Imagining the Internet archive. Read.
Cited on: The Village (wiki).

Virginia Little, “Composing Reality: Designing, Implementing, and Assessing an On-line Creative Writing Program” (1997), College of Exploration archive
Little's own published account of her program, naming the company as Metasystems Design Network (Metanet) — the documentary witness at the centre of the MDN entry. Read.
Cited on: MDN (wiki).

Eastman Kodak Company, “Kodak's Entertainment Imaging unit acquires Picture Network International, Ltd.”, Business Wire, July 23, 1997
The acquisition record the MDN entry prints for PNI's end: Kodak's purchase of Picture Network International. Printed as a print citation; no URL exists in the edition and none is invented here.
Cited on: MDN (wiki).

“Kodak Buys PNI”, Selling Stock, September 17, 1997
The trade-press account behind the MDN entry's note that SRA Corporation's search-engine patents passed to Kodak in the acquisition. Read.
Cited on: MDN (wiki).

Nathan Benn, founder's biography (Picture Network International and the Seymour service)
The founder's biography the MDN entry cites for PNI and the Seymour service it sold. Read.
Cited on: MDN (wiki).

The editor's published professional profile (PNI, June 1993–October 1994) and his confirmation of the identification, October 26, 2026
A published profile, printed in the MDN entry's sources without a URL, carrying the employment dates that entry relies on, with the identification confirmed October 26, 2026. No URL is printed in the edition.
Cited on: MDN (wiki).

“CONFER (software)”, Wikipedia
The reference article on Robert Parnes's system, cited by four entries for the conferencing family tree. Read.
Cited on: Online Conferencing (wiki), Caucus (wiki), The WELL (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“EIES”, Wikipedia
The reference article on Murray Turoff's conferencing system, cited by the conferencing and WELL entries. Read.
Cited on: Online Conferencing (wiki), The WELL (wiki).

“PicoSpan”, Wikipedia
The reference article The WELL entry cites for the software the WELL ran on. Read.
Cited on: The WELL (wiki).

“PLATO (computer system)”, Wikipedia
The reference article the conferencing entry cites for the earliest of the conferencing ancestors. Read.
Cited on: Online Conferencing (wiki).

“The WELL”, Wikipedia
The reference article cited by the telnet, WELL and village entries for the community's public record. Read.
Cited on: Telnet to the Web (wiki), The WELL (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“The Meta Network”, Alchetron (mirroring the former Wikipedia article)
The mirrored reference article the telnet and TMN entries cite for The Meta Network's record. Read.
Cited on: Telnet to the Web (wiki), TMN (wiki).

“Frank L. Burns”, Wikipedia
The reference article on TMN's founder, cited by the MDG, MDN and village entries. Read.
Cited on: Metasystems Design Group (wiki), MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“Communication”, Media Art Net (on Art Com Electronic Network)
The Media Art Net overview The WELL entry cites for the Art Com Electronic Network strand. Read.
Cited on: The WELL (wiki).

Cliff Figallo, “Choosing Web Conferencing Software” (archived at web.archive.org)
A practitioner's period comparison of conferencing software, cited by the conferencing and Caucus entries — among other things for the WELL-style family. Read in its archived copy.
Cited on: Online Conferencing (wiki), Caucus (wiki).

CaucusCare, caucuscare.com (the software's present home)
The living institutional home of the Caucus software — its present custodian and archive, cited by the Caucus entry. Read.
Cited on: Caucus (wiki).

Rheingold Associates, “Our Team”, rheingold.com
The associates' roster page, opened and read: it carries period biographies of the associates — among them Chris Abraham's. Read.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Item 8 — the sister preservation edition at item8.org, and its FAQ
The sister edition's own record, cited for the Item 8 bridge — adjacency only, as the FAQ itself words it. Read.
Cited on: FAQ, Wiki index, Online Conferencing (wiki), Caucus (wiki).

The writers in their own words

Judy Malloy, “Memories of Arts Wire”, people.well.com
Malloy's own memoir page for ARTS WIRE — a public document, and the author's testimony, cited by four entries for the network's life. Read.
Cited on: Telnet to the Web (wiki), ARTS WIRE (wiki), The Village (wiki), The Writers (wiki).

Tom Igoe, faculty page, NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
Igoe's own institutional page, cited by the writers entry for the record of his work since the work. Read.
Cited on: The Writers (wiki).

“About”, Collins & Goto Studio
The studio's own about page, cited by the writers entry for Tim Collins's practice with Reiko Goto. Read.
Cited on: The Writers (wiki).

Anna Couey, biographical note, Connectivity archive (aom.jku.at)
Couey's own biographical note in the Connectivity archive, cited by the writers entry for her part in the period's networks. Read.
Cited on: The Writers (wiki).

Reference the glossary stands on

Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think”, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945
The Memex essay behind the hypertext entry's account of the form's ancestry. A print reference, read; no URL is printed in the edition.
Cited on: Hypertext (wiki).

Emerson, essay “The Over-Soul” (1841); behind Emerson, the German Romantics
Named in the glossary's General reference line for the oversoul: the essay names the unity of souls the work borrows. A named work, read as the glossary states it; no URL is printed.
Cited on: Glossary.

Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception (1954)
Named in the glossary's General reference line for the reducing valve — Huxley's figure for the brain's narrowing of perception. A named work; no URL is printed in the edition.
Cited on: Glossary.

Roland Barthes — named in the glossary's General reference line for “lexia”
Barthes is named, with no work specified: the glossary states only that the word comes from his name for a unit of reading, taken up by hypertext scholarship, and this entry says the same. No specific work is cited, and none is invented here.
Cited on: Glossary.

“Contract with America”, the platform of the U.S. House Republicans in the 1994 midterm elections (General reference)
Carried in the glossary under its General reference label for the Republican contract entry: that autumn's political weather, named as a document but given no URL. No public document is cited.
Cited on: Glossary.

General reference (no source document named): eWorld, Apple's consumer online service, ran from 1994 to 1996
Printed as exactly that in the glossary: a general reference naming no document — outside knowledge as stated, with no author, work or URL named. No public document is cited.
Cited on: Glossary.

General reference (no source document named): LambdaMOO ran from Xerox PARC; its creator is Pavel Curtis
Printed as exactly that in the glossary: a general reference naming no document. No public document is cited.
Cited on: Glossary.

General reference (no source document named): the PowerBook was Apple's portable Macintosh line
Printed as exactly that in the glossary: a general reference naming no document. No public document is cited.
Cited on: Glossary.

General reference (no source document named): on systems like the WELL, wizards were the staff who ran the conferencing software
Printed as exactly that in the glossary: a general reference naming no document — period usage as stated. No public document is cited.
Cited on: Glossary.

Eastgate Systems, “FAQ: What is hypertext? What are hypertexts?”
The publisher's own FAQ, cited by the hypertext entry for the field's working definitions. Read.
Cited on: Hypertext (wiki).

“Hypertext”, Wikipedia
The reference article the hypertext entry cites alongside Bush and Eastgate. Read.
Cited on: Hypertext (wiki).

“Hypertext fiction”, Wikipedia
The reference article the hyperfiction entry cites for the form's history. Read.
Cited on: Hyperfiction (wiki).

“Electronic literature”, Wikipedia
The reference article cited by the hyperfiction and electronic-literature entries for the field as a whole. Read.
Cited on: Hyperfiction (wiki), Electronic Literature (wiki).

“Electronic Literature Organization”, Wikipedia
The reference article the electronic-literature entry cites for the field's organization. Read.
Cited on: Electronic Literature (wiki).

“Eastgate Systems”, Wikipedia
The reference article the hyperfiction entry cites for the publisher and its Storyspace world. Read.
Cited on: Hyperfiction (wiki).

Testimony

The editor's November 1999 scrape of TMN's classroom conferences
One archive artifact carrying the pinpoint citation the MDN entry prints: “Metanet” as the company's everyday name in over a hundred uses, with Ginny Little, September 22, 1999, on its becoming Caucus Systems (cited by the MDN entry). The editor's own archive; no public document.
Cited on: MDN (wiki).

The editor's recollections of TMN's offices and staff, given October 26, 2026
The editor's testimony, given October 26, 2026, on the offices and the people who ran them, as the village entry attributes it. No public document.
Cited on: The Village (wiki).

The editor's ruling and recollections, given October 26, 2026
The editor's testimony, given October 26, 2026, on the MDN naming question, as the MDN entry attributes it — printed beside the documented record, with the question left open. No public document.
Cited on: MDN (wiki).

Appendix: The neighbouring classroom's paper, consulted for the wiki

Virginia S. Little, doctoral dissertation, “Design, Implementation and Assessment of an Online Writing Program for Multi-age Students, Grades 9–12”, California Institute of Integral Studies, September 27, 2000
Her dissertation on the program — read in full by the research program; its chapter 4 coverage list and Appendix J are the attesting record for the press entries that follow it in this appendix.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

KVISD Newsletter (December 1996)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. A school-district newsletter item on the program, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Community Focus 7.1 (January 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. A community-paper item on the program, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

South County Commercial Express (January 1997, p. 3)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. A local-paper item on the program, page 3, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Nancy King, “Breaking the old class barriers”, Kalamazoo Gazette (January 1997, p. C5)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The Gazette's account of the class and its broken barriers, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“Local students travel to Washington D.C.”, Kalamazoo Gazette (February 1997, p. 7)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The Gazette's report of the students' Washington trip, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Virginia Little, “Classrooms without Walls”, Talking Points (Spring 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The dissertation's list gives the piece the program's name instead — “Creative Writers on the Net” — and both titles are printed here as the record gives them.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Virginia Little, “The Heart of Community and the Soul of the Machine”, NEA website (April 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. Her piece for the NEA's website, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“Vicksburg students speak to state school board here”, Kalamazoo Gazette (April 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The Gazette's report of the students addressing the state school board, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

WWMT-TV news segment (April 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. A broadcast segment, attested as a presentation listing in the dissertation's record; a television piece leaves no page to open.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Washington Post interview with Linton Weeks (April 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. This was an interview event: no published piece is attested, and none is claimed here.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“Students Receive Laptops for Internet Class”, Kalamazoo Gazette, City Life (October 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The Gazette's City Life item on the laptops, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Virginia Little, “Technology: The New Literacy”, ITU Forum Papers on CD-ROM (October 1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. Possibly an alternate title for another of her forum papers; the record lists it under this title, and it is printed so, as possibly an alternate title.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Lisa Beckwith, “No Walls for County's Newest Classroom” (1997)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. A 1997 account of the classroom without walls, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record; its venue is not given there.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Inner Eye, CIIS (May 1998)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The institute's own publication, as listed in the dissertation's coverage record.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

University of Nebraska at Omaha professional journal (June 1998)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The journal's title is not given in the source, and none is invented here.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

News You Can Use, Arts Council newsletter (by 1998)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. The one attested item whose text survives, quoted inside the dissertation's Appendix J.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Virginia Little, “Our Words as Writers Create Windows”, chapter in Defining Moments (eds. Nieto & Spears, Lawrence Erlbaum)
Attested in Little's dissertation (2000); the piece itself has not been located in open archives. Listed “in press” in September 2000 in the dissertation's record, and printed here with that standing.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Virginia Little, “The World at Our Finger Tips”, CPSR News 15.1 (Winter 1997)
Her practitioner account of the Creative Writers on the Net program and its campus rooms. Read in full.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“Creative Writers on the Net: A Dialogue between Three Students”, ed. Virginia Little with Jessica Ott, Sean Moiles, and Katherine Blanke, ITU Geneva, 1997
The students' own dialogue from the program, edited by their teacher — the program in its participants' voices. Read in full.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“We are the Poets: Crossing Boundaries”, the class's poetic drama (Omaha, March 1998)
The class's own poetic drama, written and performed by the students the program gathered. Read in full.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Virginia S. Little, “Life at the Bottom of a Soup Bowl”, ITU/Telecom 99 forum paper (Geneva, October 1999)
Her forum paper on the program's life from inside, presented at Geneva in 1999. Read in full.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

“Kids Say”, College of Exploration BEAT St. archive
The students' own sayings, kept in the program's archive — the class's voice unedited. Read in full.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

Virginia S. Little, résumé, College of Exploration
Her own résumé in the College of Exploration archive — the professional record behind the program accounts. Read in full.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: MDN (wiki), The Village (wiki).

KRESA, “Education for the Arts”
The program's present institutional page at the Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency; it stands behind the EFA and KRESA expansions the edition prints in its FAQ bridge. Read.
Cited on: Bibliography.
Grounds: FAQ.

Named in the entries' prose

George Landow — the entries name him for the distinction the prose uses, between networked and axial hypertext, in the terms he gave the field; no specific work of his is cited.

N. Katherine Hayles — the entries name her for the period name the prose uses, the first-generation hypertext era, and quote her definition of electronic literature as digital born; no specific work of hers is cited.