OTEM CIC Pasta Shells said the first edition of David's pages "...read like a cross between a game-show introduction and a personal ad..."
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Loebell Enterprises (david@klatha.com) -- A multimedia conglomerate. It's subsidiaries include DonkeyTech, a controller and interface card manufacturer; the Fire Escape, a coffeehouse, music and book store, library and internet service provider; the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; and David's Tap-Dancing and Gouda Emporium. Wombat Executive Officer, David Loebell.
Oscillations Through Electronic Media (ps539@bard.edu) -- Electronic subsidiary of OTGM worldwide enterprises. Commander in Chief, Pasta Shells. Departments too numerous to list.
Quadraphonetic Lipstick, Inc. (pchaplin@nimbus.temple.edu) -- No one is quite sure what this odd company does. Psychopath in Chief, Pamela "Wookie" Chaplin.
Gary Shells (gdschnell@uoknor.edu) -- OTEM parental unit and Oklahoma biologist.
Vermont Artisans (jh653@bard.edu) -- a company founded in a small Vermont town with the intention of improving the conditions of the universe. Originally, their aim was merely to make traditional Vermont Maple Syrup available to all creatures regardless of race, gender, or genus. They were satisfied with this small improvement. Yet, the advertisement-based computer industry became the focus of another universitarian campaign, when they realized the harm that the fast-paced market was creating for humans, as well as for chimpanzees. Director, John Hannon.
Wallenstein QuantumInfo (la994@bard.edu) -- An information provider which is rumored to be a front for many illegal and nefarious activities by its Ultimate Chief, Luis Alcazar-Wallenstein-Roman, Mad scientist and leader of Austrian hordes. Select this link to see the reported corporate structure of Wallenstein QuantumInfo
09 Sep 1995 -- OTEM announces its recent interface with the INTERNET.
11 Sep 1995 -- DonkeyTech pursues partnership with OTEM in "new generation of information server."
Select this link to see the revolutionary information delicatessen project.
05 Oct 1995 -- DonkeyTech WEO announces formation of Tap-Dancing school and Gouda emporium.
08 Oct 1995 -- Luis Alcazar-Wallenstein-Roman announces intention to break OTEM CIC Pasta Shells into his component molecules.
10 Oct 1995 -- David's Tap Dancing and Gouda emporium declares chapter 11 bankruptcy.
15 Oct 1995 -- OTEM parental unit and Oklahoma biologist Gary Shells announces that "Many live their whole lives under, in, or as a delusion!"
20 Oct 1995 -- OTEM announces that it is in possession of a lost pair of keys (As always, the medium is the message).
25 Nov 1995 -- Luis Alcazar-Wallenstein-Roman spreads rumors on UseNet regarding OTEM's Caveman.
25 Nov 1995 -- DonkeyTech announces the SillyBus.
25 Nov 1995 -- Press breaks news of OTEM's new Caveman processor.
26 Nov 1995 -- OTEM WorldWide releases Errata and Commentary on press reporting regarding it's Caveman processor.
28 Nov 1995 -- OTEM announces the imminent release of its new operating system.
29 Nov 1995 -- OTEM's Arrows and Indices department clarifies OTEM's previous press release. Meanwhile, OTEM's InfoDistro department reports that "Further information will be dispersed as appropriate." Finally, OTEM's Virtue subcommittee suggests patience.
03 Dec 1995 -- Vermont Artisans announces the Mighty Machine supercomputer.
04 Dec 1995 -- OTEM Worldwide announces its opinion of Bill Gates.
08 Dec 1995 -- OTEM CIC Pasta Shells's favorite leisure activities revealed.
09 Dec 1995 -- OTEM announces that it "deplores the irresponsibility" of Vermont Artisans in creating the "monster" that is the Mighty Machine.
10 Dec 1995 -- Vermont Artisans apologizes to OTEM, but stresses its duty in maintaining the Mighty Machine.
10 Dec 1995 -- OTEM accepts Vermont Artisans's apology, and clarifies its position on ethicoeconomic intervention.
11 Dec 1995 -- Quadraphonetic Lipstick PIC Pamela "Wookie" Chaplin announces that "Going to grad school will not solve all of your problems."
15 Dec 1995 -- OTEM announces that "due to budget cutbacks of unprecedented scope, it will CEASE ALL OPERATIONS as of this notice and will not resume until 28 JANUARY 1996." In response, its stock plummets.
19 Dec 1995 -- Oscillations Archives goes online for testing.
28 Jan 1996 -- An unknown news organization, believed to be affiliated with Luis Alcazar-Wallenstein-Roman, reports network activity in otgm.matrix domain.
30 Jan 1996 -- OTEM VP in charge of Channels, 0x Redoubtable, makes a number of statements intended to rebut previous news reporting. Industry analysts find many of these statements dubious.
31 Jan 1996 -- Luis Alcazar-Wallenstein-Roman makes his first public statement as head of Wallenstein QuantumInfo, Inc. The statement is a rebuttal of Mr. Redoubtable's rebuttal of Mr. A-W-R's article.
31 Jan 1996 -- Mr. Redoubtable issues a rebuttal of Mr. A-W-R's rebuttal of Mr. Redoubtable's rebuttal of Mr. A-W-R's article.
03 Feb 1996 -- Oscillations Archives News Service analysis of tiff between Wallenstein QuantumInfo, Inc. and Oscillations Through Electronic Media, Inc.
04 Feb 1996 -- OTEM clarifies it's policies on incoming media oscillation.
04 Feb 1996 -- Oscillations Archive enters final release and is announced to the public.
05 Feb 1996 -- OTEM Responds to OANS analysis of the accusations launched by WQI.
05 Feb 1996 -- The Oscillation Archives Information Dispersal Department Responds to OTEM's questions.
06 Feb 1996 -- OTEM's VP in Charge of Channels, Extraordinary Mustache, releases the official "OTEM Laundry List" and announces the denormalization of former VP in Charge of Channels, 0x Redoubtable.
07 Feb 1996 -- OTEM to protest Communications Decency Act by distributing soft-core pornographic material free of charge.
07 Feb 1996 -- OTEM Announces its attainment of the status of non-linear hypercorporation.
07 Feb 1996 -- OTEM apologizes for the lateness in the release of their announcement to fight the new legislation that bans pornography on the internet.
08 Feb 1996 -- WQI alleges abuse of Matrix resources by OTEM, and links this abuse to the recent disappearance of former OTEM VP in Charge of Channels, 0x Redoubtable.
08 Feb 1996 -- WQI congratulates OTEM and welcomes it to pandimensionality. WQI releases methodology for information retrieval from higher "dimensional cross-sections".
08 Feb 1996 -- OTEM Metacircular Division Head, @illa Backspace, announces his doubts about WQI's claims to pandimensionality and dismisses their technological advise as an "absurd calculation."
08 Feb 1996 -- WQI expresses dissappointment in OTEM's refusal to join the "Pandimensional Group" in the exploration of higher dimensions. In addition, WQI defends its methodology. Finally, WQI insinuates that the Gold Heart Mountaintop Queen Directory is affiliated with OTEM.
08 Feb 1996 -- OTEM releases the "True Life of 0x Redoubtable", allegedly writen by Redoubtable himself.
08 Feb 1996 -- WQI Publishes further allegations regarding the "OTEM Dumping Scandal," including the statement that the originator of OTEM's previous statement was not the real 0x Redoubtable.
08 Feb 1996 -- OTEM challenges WQI to produce further evidence, and further threatens WQI with "the matrical equivalent of war".
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Last modified 11 August 1997.