Wired: We are the Web: A decade of genius and madness. Love 2003

[madfloridian]

The total article:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html

And for 2003, The Candidate Howard Dean.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/2003.html

The Candidate - Howard Dean: "Dick Cheney was holding a $2,000-a-plate fundraising lunch, so we asked Americans all over the country to join me the same day for a lunch in front of their computers. It sparked a huge response, and, amazingly, the online contributions from that day matched what Cheney made from his fundraiser. It showed that our campaign, and that of other Democrats, could remain competitive thanks to a growing base of people donating small amounts. A lot of people talked about how our campaign revolutionized the use of the Internet to raise money. But the Internet isn't magic, it's just a tool that can be used to do things differently. We treated it as a community, and we grew the community into something that has lasted long after the campaign ended. The Internet let us build that community in real time, on a massive scale, and that lunch helped us do that. The turkey sandwich wasn't bad either."

- Interview by Jeff Howe

The Turkey Sandwich fundraiser, I remember it well.

[wli]

1. no wonder the neofascists are trying to censor the net

They wouldn't want Democrats to get campaign contributions, would they?

[madfloridian]

2. Raised as much as Cheney with a turkey sandwich.

I am glad to see Wired remembers this special event.

[Demobrat]

3. I think that may have been the first time I sent him money.

Certainly not the last, though.

[madfloridian]

4. That day is so clear in our minds.

It showed the power of individual donors. :hi:

[aion]

5. I'll pay him for a few more screams! The reaction to that was so...

juvenile. I didn't know there was a proper way to scream with excitement. Dean certainly looked better doing that than Bolton looked when he argued against the top floors of the UN.