Carl Steadman

Carl Steadman is co-founder of suck.com, creator of several pieces of early web-savvy literature and current operator of plastic.com.^[2] He was also production director for HotWired.

Arguably one of the web's first microcelebrities, most information about him is in third-party articles. Carl seemed to both be the most talked about person on the web who seemed to do the least talking.

Steadman appeared in the 1999 documentary Home Page.^[3]

Works

• Suck Contributor: Carl Steadman
• Placing - "Placing doesn't depict the future so much as portray the present"
• Rats To Cats!
• "Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story^[4]
• Carl's original homepage
• Carl's "tilde site" at Freedonia

References

1. ^ Quittner, Josh (November 1996). "Web Dreams". Wired Issue 4.11. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.11/web_dreams.html. "Carl, 26" 
2. ^ "User Agreement". plastic.com. http://www.plastic.com/agree.html. Retrieved 2007-02-21. 
3. ^ Carl Steadman at the Internet Movie Database
4. ^ Two Solitudes, InterText

External links

• Carl's self-written bio (to about age 26)
• Ready Steadman Go (fan site)