Carl Steadman is co-founder of suck.com

Suck.com

Suck.com was one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. It featured daily editorial content on a wide variety of topics, including politics and pop-culture and was targeted at Generation X...

, creator of several pieces of early web-savvy literature and current operator of plastic.com

Plastic.com

Plastic.com was an internet forum for news and discussion of events and issues. The site was community-driven, with readers moderating discussions, submitting stories, and participating in their selection.Its motto was 'Recycling the Web in Real Time'....

. He was also production director for HotWired

HotWired

Hotwired was the first commercial web magazine, launched on October 27, 1994. Although it was part of Wired Ventures, Hotwired was a separate entity from Wired, the print magazine, and had original content....

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Arguably one of the web's first microcelebrities, most information about him is in third-party articles. Carl seemed to both be the most talked about person on the web who seemed to do the least talking.

Steadman appeared in the 1999 documentary Home Page.

Works

• Suck Contributor: Carl Steadman
• Placing - "Placing doesn't depict the future so much as portray the present"
• Rats To Cats!
• "Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story
• Carl's original homepage
• Carl's "tilde site" at Freedonia

External links

• Carl's self-written bio (to about age 26)
• Ready Steadman Go (fan site)