[Ads-l] "cybercad" article - help?
Jesse Sheidlower
jester at PANIX.COM
Thu Aug 29 16:49:15 UTC 2024
What are the references to this supposed article that you've found?
There was indeed a widely reported incident in the summer of 1993 involving a man who behaved caddishly on The WELL, but it's not clear to me that there was actually an article in Time _called_ "The Case of the Cybercad"; I've just seen this as a description of the incident.
A main article about the incident was by Jonathan Schwartz on page A1 of the Washington Post of 11 July 1993; it was titled "On-Line Lothario's Antics Prompt Debate on Cyber-Age Ethics", and the last line, quoting "Lizabeth", one of the person's targets: "I don't think he's anything more than I've called him, which is a cyber-cad."
Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 09:33:21AM -0700, Nancy Friedman wrote:
> I'm researching the term "cybercad" (a man who takes advantage of women
> online) and am looking for an article published in *Time *magazine in the
> summer of 1993 headlined (possibly) "The Case of the Cybercad." I've found
> references to it but can't find the article itself in *Time*'s archives or
> the Internet Archive.
>
> Any ideas? Or any other antedating of "cybercad"?
>
> Thanks!
>
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