In May of 1999, my hall at MIT’s East Campus Dormitory, known as “Second West”, “putz”, “PTZ”, “Pi Tau Zeta” (and probably many others), was featured in Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine because of the venerable putz webcam, which had been operating in some form since 1997. Today, of course, that webcam is still operating (assuming Pranjal or some current resident remembers to reboot it every once in a while) at http://www.mitwebcam.com.
So I kept the magazine. It turns out that the single paragraph and picture on the putz webcam wasn’t the only gem in this thing. I took the liberty of scanning the full magazine a while ago and a full pdf is linked below. Aside from the mention of the webcam, there’s an introduction to this new “stark” search engine known as “Google!” (not sure what the exclamation point is about), and an interview with Richard Branson about the future of the internet and his businesses. The centerpiece of the issue is the list of America’s top 100 wired colleges (MIT got 2nd place to Case Western, of all things, and I have no idea why).
Article mentioning “Google!”, and PTZ Webcam mention Clippings:
Full PDF of magazine issue (right click and “save as”):
Into The Weeds 