Bruce Fancher

He is the son of Ed Fancher, who founded The Village Voice with Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer, in 1955.

The article was apparently worked on and edited during a 5-year period, and there are at least 3 different versions of it that still remain online,[8][9][10] including a much earlier, hardcore technical revision which has most of the commands to control phone company computers, deleted out of it.

[11] Although MindVox quickly became notorious for the escapades of its hard-partying clientele, there is little or no evidence that Fancher was involved personally in the wild lifestyles of its members.

However, he was at least indirectly affected, in that by 1995 Kroupa's drug use was fast becoming legendary and his ability to function on a daily basis was diminishing.

While the media attention never ended, the development and growth of the system had slowed down and Phantom Access Technologies was taking on consulting positions to help other companies create their own online presence,[12] and Fancher gained growing acclaim as a software architect and member of the dot.com technocracy.

Bruce Fancher on Manhattan Rooftop in 1993