Carl Steadman

Carl Steadman
2023 photograph of an original plastic-bagged cookie created by Carl Steadman in 1999 and sold through his site
Born	May 30, 1970 Richmond, California, US
Known for	co-founder of suck.com

Carl Steadman is the co-founder of Suck.com and the creator of several pieces of early web-savvy literature. He is the former operator of Plastic.com. ^{[1] [2]}

He was also production director for HotWired, and appeared in the 1999 documentary Home Page .^{[ citation needed ]}

Works

• Placing - "Placing doesn't depict the future so much as portray the present"
• Rats To Cats!
• "Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story ^[3]
• Carl's "tilde site" at Freedonia
• Steadman wrote an untitled essay about leaving Suck.com, published on the Rox website in July 1996.

References

1. Honan, Mathew (2002-04-03). "When Automatic's Teller Ran Dry". Online Journalism Review.
2. Honan, Mathew (2002-04-03). "'Plastic is All I Do'". Online Journalism Review. Archived from the original on 2014-12-01.
3. Two Solitudes, InterText

External links

• Carl Steadman on Facebook
• Carl's self-written bio (to about age 26)