[Ads-l] "cybercad" article - help?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

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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