Chapter Four: The Finale of the Gathering + UFOs Are Real [San Francisco, California—April 11, 1992]

62.     “Wow! 35 subscribers”: Brian Behlendorf, “To start things off…” (SF-Raves post, March 4, 1992)

63.     mimicked (not sampled): Terry Church, “Moby speaks about ‘Go’ and dance music 1991-1992” (Beatport News, May 18, 2009)

63.     reportedly no-showed: Don Labutay, ”toondown” (SF-Raves post, April 13, 1992)

64.     “Good Vibrations” rapper Marky Mark: Geoff White, “Re: God blessed those who Gathered...” (SF-Raves post, April 13, 1992)

64.     SF Weekly and SF Bay Guardian: Derek Chung, “UFOs are real” (SF-Raves post, April 2, 1992)

64.     by midnight, around 150 were in line for the Gathering: Mykl G, “Gathering my thoughts” (SF-Raves post, April 13, 1992)

64.     $17 to UFOs’ $23: Jon Drukman, “the last and final gathering” (SF-Raves post, April 13, 1992)

64.     “NO IN-OUT”: White

64.     “A no-frills party”: Don Labutay, “Rave update” (SF-Raves post, August 7, 1992)

64.     “You're name's not down, you're not coming in”: Brian Behlendorf, “Ah, finally!” (SF-Raves post, April 15, 1992)

64.     The Gathering’s floor was packed with dancers: Behlendorf, “Ah, finally!”

64.     despite the main room being carpeted: Drukman

64.     UFOs was thick with bystanders; Labutay

64.     twenty-foot globe: Behlendorf, “Ah, finally!”

65.     “when someone bothered to run them well”: Brad Allen, “Finale Gathering, UFOs are Real” (SF-Raves post, April 12, 1992)

65.     UFOs was consistently under-volume: Labutay

65.     “We Are Family”: Beaumont

65.     “Not a soul to be found”: Behlendorf, “Ah, finally!”

65.     two-to-one over ToonTown: Michael Gold, “Poll tabulation” (SF-Raves post, April 10, 1992)

66.     Netscape, the first commercially available: Mantis, “Classic Mid-90s Mixtapes” (Mantisounds [blog], November 23, 2010)

66.     “about or around”: 1994: “Today”: “What is the Internet, anyway?" (YouTube clip of The Today Show, January 1994, uploaded by VortexTech; accessed November 6, 2013)

69.     saying you’d passed out party flyers there: Brian Behlendorf, “Subject: Re: weekend update” (SF-Raves post, August 11, 1992)

71.     a hit of acid cost less than five dollars: andy, “Re: cyberFUNK” (SF-Raves post, July 29, 1992)

72.     “Raves are very much like high-tech Acid Tests”: author unknown, rave feature (UPI NewsFeature, c. August 1992); via Laura la Gassa, “UPI rave article lifted from the net” (NE-Raves post, August 20, 1992)

72.     “EvEn without hElp”: Tim Hyland, “Subject: Out door raves” (NE-Raves post, June 29, 1992)

72.     gave away inspirational pamphlets: Amanda Nowinski, “Positively Malachy” (SF Bay Guardian, 2000)

73.     “designed for meditation and relaxation purposes”: Kirn, p. 146

74.     There was no AOL, Compuserve, Genie, or Prodigy: Mike Brown, “A cobbled-together history of Hyperreal” (Hyperreal [website], December 2000)

74.     Telnet-based “Unix-CB” chat server: Brown 

75.     “Teentown”: Cynthia Robins, “The Ecstatic Cybernetic Amino Acid Test” (San Francisco Examiner, February 16, 1992)

75.     “If you hear an ad for a rave on Live 105, don't go”: Eric Pederson CSE, “Re: Exclusiveness” (SF-Raves post, March 17, 1992)

76.     “blatant commercialism”: Pete Ashdown, “Commercialism at its worst” (NE-Raves post, October 21, 1992)

77.     Tony, who was moving to Sweden: Chris Beaumont, “Saucer party and final Gathering.” (SF-Raves post, March 23, 1992)

77.     O’Brien fully planned: Michael Wertheim, “Re: Finale Gathering, UFOs are Real” (SF-Raves post, April 12, 1992) 

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