For those of us who've been around the Internet for quite a while, are you starting to feel old yet? From BBS's on a slowwww dial-up modem to the hyper-crazed, graphics-intensive, social-media world of today, it's been quite a wild ride. I remember hanging out in the computer lab on campus with rows and rows of the old IBM machines staring silently back at me, with nary a web browser on them! However, today's post isn't about me getting all teary-eyed about scratchy modems and spaghetti piles of network...

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George Santayana said “Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.” Certainly e-book history has been repeating—the iPhone/iPod Touch and the Kindle are standing in for the Palm PDA and the RocketBook as a new generation discovers e-books just as the early adopters did ten years ago (only a bit more successfully this time). But the history that people have been forgetting (or perhaps not knowing to begin with) is that there was a thriving electronic fiction community years before even the earliest commercial e-books were around to be adopted. Over the last four columns, I have...

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