Description of Collection: For this collection, I (Alex Ketchum) have brought together digital art, usenet directories, image files, gifs, digitized versions of physical books, screenshots of defunct websites, video files, magazine articles, academic research papers, and more. The oldest material in the collection comes from 1982. It is the signature of 1982 posting to net.general Usenet group: “ecvax!ittvax!qumix!gandalf/ Al Chetham, System Wizard/ Qume Corp/ San Jose, CA.” In 1979/1980 Tom Tr

From Tech Wizard to Cyber Witch: 40 Years of Magic on the Web Giles: Are you a witch? Jenny: I don’t have that kind of power. “Techno Pagan” is the term. [Giles is shocked] Giles: There are more of us than you think. On April 28, 1997, Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s eighth episode, “I Robot, You Jane” aired. In the episode, after a demon enters cyberspace and threatens to go on a murderous rampage, the high school computer teacher Jenny Calendar reveals that she is a techno pagan. This referenc