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Hi. I am Cyn the new cyberbarf cyberLady. I am new here so I thought it would be a good idea to do a quick tour of this site to bring the readership to up speed on cyberbarf. com. If you are new to this web site, you probably are wondering why it is called cyberbarf. The site was created by a guy called Ski from Chicago. He found that the internet mania of the 1990s was pretty much out of control. This was before the stock bubble burst. He would go to the book stores and find internet magazines thicker than telephone booths but filled with more and more bull patties.
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So Ski coined the term cyberbarf to described the unchecked nature of glowing conclusion that the internet was going to “change everything.” He highlighted part of the webzine's name in green in order to emphasize the “puke” aspect of early internet magazine coverage. Now Ski was no stranger to publishing commentary on society, politics and culture. Since 1980, he has produced a zine called The Real News, which features his slant on life and editorial cartoons.
His friends had been demanding more Real News editions. So he was pushed toward publishing his zine digitally. So instead of merely porting his printed version into pdf copies on a single web page, Ski habitually went “overboard” in early 2001 to develop three web sites: skirealnews.com, cyberbarf.com and pindermedia.com.
The Real News site, skirealnews.com, was the digital publishing of his existing zine. Instead of a quarterly written publication, he used daily to weekly updates of editorial cartoons, special pages, and his “wire service” to give quick commentary or updates. This was blogging before the term was hot zoned in the national press. The pindermedia.com site was to be the catch-all hub, where Real News archives would be housed, plus other interests such as art and animation could be explored at a later time. Apparently, that beast called Work keeps a stranglehold on Ski's free time. He is basically running three web sites in his off-hours.
This web site was intended to be a monthly e-publication. As a veteran of desk top publishing on the fly, Ski believed that a monthly webzine on the internet was something he could handle. The project was a simple premise that he incorporated into the site's banner: examine the net way of life. What does that mean? He would use essays, stories, commentary, opinion and editorial cartoons (that he calls “iToons”) to observe and dissect the phenomena of the world wide web.
