Extropy - "the vaccine for future shock" was a precursor to the Cypherpunk Mailing List and home to many of the ideas that went on to be discussed by that community.
This (AI generated website) has digitized the contents of a great number of their issues. There are some great articles in here including an article on exercise and longevity by Fran Finney, an article about digital cash and privacy by Hal Finney, and something about Creole Physics and the Credit Theory of Identity by Dave Krieger, among many others.
You could do worse than to spend some time reading these.
These peeps were incredible. Imagine that timeline, this optimism, the things going on in the world. #1606791
I definitely over-romanticize this era, but I think the '90s is a strong competitor for the second-/third-/fourth-best time to be alive after 2010s (or 1890s and 1890s, or -- if you so believe -- the future).
#1608876
90s was the best time hands down, until 9/11 threw the world backwards
But if the 90s were the best times...what sort of men does that make us?
I have no problem saying that my fellow millennials are, for the most part, pretty weak sauce
WEAKLINGS!