This essay was commissioned by Experimenta Media Arts and first appeared in the Games Theory issue 12 of their publication MESH .
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It was impressive and an exchange of email with Andreesen confirmed that a Macintosh and PC version was in the pipeline. Since its foundation in 1987 faf had existed as a monthly email digest. In 1992, soon after taking over as editor, I established a gopher site for the publication. I worked with a group of art students to get fineArt forum on the web ready for the official launch of Mosaic in January 1994. Now, four years down the track, I feel like I've left that behind me.