Author: Karl Mohn

Karl is a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia. His focus areas are digital humanities, rhetoric and composition, and comics studies. He gets to read and write comics and play video games and call it research. Jealous?

What were early digital rhetoricians thinking about more than two decades ago? What did they present on, and what topics were trending, not only in yearly conferences, but also in online discussions? Who were the major figures, and what were the projects they were working on? These are some of the questions I wanted to begin to answer when I started the Computers and Writing Memorabilia Project (CWMP) in 2012. However, to put the project in better context, I need to explain one thing. I am a pack rat. I save everything, including bottle caps, coins, and stamps. Thus it…

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