Club Wired is the place to have real-time conversations with other members of HotWired. Unlike chat areas on some commercial online services, there are no chaperones here.

Club Wired happens inside a "telnet window" that pops up while you are in HotWired. This window provides a constant stream of continually changing data. Most of HotWired consists of fixed "pages" of data, updated occasionally.

When the telnet window first pops up you'll be asked to type in your HotWired user name and HotWired password again, as a security precaution. (You won't be able to do this until you are "verified.")

If you're a newbie, read the instructions, or just Enter Club Wired.

U P C O M I N G   E V E N T S

Joshua Quittner
Contributing Writer, Wired/HotWired
Technology reporter, Newsday
Thursday, 1 December 1994
1:00 p.m. PST

Billions Served, or Just a Lot of Email?
Wired/HotWired contributing writer Joshua Quittner told the tale of registering the Internet domain name mcdonalds.com in his Wired 2.10 article "Billions Served". Now, Quittner - technology reporter for Newsday and lecturer at the Columbia University School of Journalism - visits Club Wired to discuss his experiences since the domain name story ran, as well as to offer his insights on Way New Journalism, and his take on gang wars in cyberspace, which he wrote about in the cover article of Wired 2.12.

The Gift Gremlin
Thursday, 1 December 1994
10:00 p.m. PST
Late Byte
This Week's Topic: Gift-Giving in a Wired World

Just in time for the Christmas shopping season, and with three more candle-lighting days of Chanukah remaining, Gift Gremlin (HotWired's nondenominational alms-bearer) appears on Late Byte, providing all the answers to your holiday shopping needs. Gift Gremlin provides failproof online and conventional solutions guaranteed to impress even your most unpleasant, ungrateful, been.there.done.that relatives. Bring your present problems and a pencil, and be ready to jot down ideas from the HotWishList.