Google's newly restored and expanded Usenet archive offers up (among other things) the original announcement for the first PhreakNIC in 1997. Curiously, it appears to have been published *on* the day of the conference.

Anyway, Usenet has saved for Posterity this record of my fabulous presentation: (what, you don't remember it? :)

"Reputation Capital: Digital Currency for the 21st Century and Beyond" Talk by Jeremy Mineweaser, with audience Q&A/discussion. The success of large-scale digital communications networks ultimately depends on security among untrusted parties. Widely-deployed reputation systems will revolutionize the way information is exchanged over digital communications networks."

That would have made for a great talk in 1997 ... and would still make a great talk today.

Recalling the Good Old Days ... with a little help from Google