Built CyberSurfer.

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…Is that named after like 2600 baud? Hertz, yeah. I think it was Hertz which I think when Captain Crunch made the whistle, that would then give you dial tone. I think it was the 2600 Hertz. We can look it up online while we're here. But anyway, they used to always meet Manhattan in the city, The Citibank building, the lobby where the phones were. There was a sort of culture in New York of hacking and media at the same time. I started a magazine called CyberSurfer about dial up because somebody had told me that Star Log and Fangoria, that magazine, wanted to create a magazine about CD roms and dial up. I started CyberSurfer magazine, which nobody knows about, and I got in a fight with the publisher after five issues. He sued me because I had trademarked the name. He didn't know I trademarked the name, I had no contract with him, he was 23 years old, the whole thing blew up. I was like, "The Silicon Alley thing's going to become something." I started Silicon Alley Reporter. It is a 16-page photocopy and Fred Wilson bought the first ad in it, along with Jeff Dachis from Razorfish. No way. He bought an ad for Flatiron?…

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