This has probably already been posted somewhere here, but I came across this on Slashdot a few moments ago. The link didn't work (slashdotted?) but I'm interested nontheless.

"While the text of William Gibson's elusive electronic poem AGRIPPA is widely posted around the Web, it has not been seen in its original incarnation — custom-built software designed to scroll the poem through a single play before encrypting each line with an RSA algorithm — since 1992. Today is the 16th anniversary, to the day, of the poem's initial release. A team of scholars at the University of Maryland and UC Santa Barbara used forensic computing to restore the code from an original diskette loaned by a collector and have placed video of the complete 'run,' as well as never-before-seen footage from the night of AGRIPPA's public debut in 1992, up on a Web site called the Agrippa Files. There's also a detailed essay documenting the forensic process, plus a mess of stills, screenshots, and a copy of the disk image itself."

There are some bits of the site in Google Cache. And while the site is not yet back, you can copy the links to the sections and paste them in the google search bar, to find if it is cached or not.

Interesting find, by the way, thanks for posting it.

I would love to see a re-release on the iPhone.

I say this because I downloaded an app yesterday called For All Seasons and the first thing I thought was how Gibsonian it felt.

Boing-boing has a note about it also.

Boing-boing apparently can't spell that well.

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Originally posted by titanium wren:
I would love to see a re-release on the iPhone.

You wouldn't. You'd set it off deleting itself line by line and in the middle you'd get a bloody phone call.

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Originally posted by BK/DK:

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Originally posted by titanium wren:
I would love to see a re-release on the iPhone.

You wouldn't. You'd set it off deleting itself line by line and in the middle you'd get a bloody phone call.

True

But then I don't answer phone calls. It's my small way of rejecting the pavlovian response so many people have to the sound of a telephone ringing.

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Originally posted by Wanderer:
Boing-boing apparently can't spell that well.

Cory's such a Gibson fanboy that his fingers couldn't keep up with his head