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==[[Internet|History of Online Magic]]==
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[[File: ChuckJones1.png|right|thumb|200px|[[ Chuck Jones]]]]
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'''Chuck Jones''' (b.1942) is a magician, inventor, producer and creator of the [[Mismade Girl]] illusion.
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Not long after Electronic Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) connect people by computers in the late 1970s, magicians started using it in the 1980s to discuss magic.
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Inspired and taught by the female magician [[Dell O'Dell]] at her Hollywood magic shop as a child, Jones was performing up to six birthday parties a weekend in high school. Some for Hollywood celebrities’ kids such as Judy Garland and Anthony Quinn. Jones acquired Dell O'Dell's magic collection after her passing.
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=== MicroMagicon  (MMC) ===
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[[Steve Burton]] and [[Martin Lewis]] created MicroMagicon, possibly the first on-line computer conference of magicians.  It was a weekly "magic convention" on CompuServe.  Burton hosted the conference  under the name of "Daedalus", which happened every Tuesday night at 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Membership was up to 120 by 1987 and their official online journal, started in 1988, was called Abracadata. It has attracted the likes of [[Eugene Burger]], [[Peter Samelson]], and [[Penn & Teller]]. Items you could find in the online library were an article on Erdnase by Burton; an after dinner speech for the magician by Gary Ouellet; a concise interpretation of the Tarot cards by Wayne Keyser; lists of dealers, magic magazines, and magicians; and an online version of [[Thaumaturgist]] by [[Jeff Busby]] (which contained stuff he couldn't fit into the print version.)
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After performing at a party for the writer of the [[Johnny Carson]] Show, Jones was asked to appear in a TV skit with Carson.
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Magic enthusiasts started  posting on the newsgroup "alt.magic". Web-based archiving of Usenet posts began in 1985 at Deja News with a very large, searchable database. In 2001, this database was acquired by Google.
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=== Penn and Teller's Mofo BBS ===
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[[Penn and Teller]] had a  dial-up computer running in New York City called Mofo around 1986, with all kinds of magic related stuff.
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=== MAGIC! - The Global Magicians Network  ===
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[[Magic!]] was a private Bulletin Board System (BBS) strictly for magicians  to engage in both private and double private chats. It brought hundreds of conjuring related aficionados together via the modem.  Ran by the System Operator (Sysop)  Dave Lichtman. participants grew to be around 1,000 and included [[Max Maven]], [[T.A. Waters]], [[Max Abrams]], [[Pete Biro]], [[Tommy Wonder]], Tabby Crabb aka Tabman, Paul Kozak, David Williamson, Charlie Randall, Bill Wells, Frank Zak, Paul Cummins, Steve Bryant, Mac King,  Wittus Witt, Jamy Ian Swiss, Ron Wilson,  Gary Plants,  Jim Sisti, Michael Ammar, Jeff Busby,  [[Harry Blackstone, Jr.]], Geno Munari and Dante Larsen.
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MAGIC! ran from 1990 - 1997. [[Tabby Crabb]] put up an archive of the messages on the web at: http://www.questx.com/magic!/
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He later went on to produce and appear in his own a daily, live cartoon show at KCOP in Hollywood.
  
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His [[Mismade Girl]] illusion was featured by [[Orson Welles]] on the Jackie Gleason Show.
  
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[[Internet|Read more about the history of magic on the internet...]]
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[[Chuck Jones|Read more about Chuck Jones…]]

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Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones (b.1942) is a magician, inventor, producer and creator of the Mismade Girl illusion.

Biography

Inspired and taught by the female magician Dell O'Dell at her Hollywood magic shop as a child, Jones was performing up to six birthday parties a weekend in high school. Some for Hollywood celebrities’ kids such as Judy Garland and Anthony Quinn. Jones acquired Dell O'Dell's magic collection after her passing.

After performing at a party for the writer of the Johnny Carson Show, Jones was asked to appear in a TV skit with Carson.

He later went on to produce and appear in his own a daily, live cartoon show at KCOP in Hollywood.

His Mismade Girl illusion was featured by Orson Welles on the Jackie Gleason Show.

Read more about Chuck Jones…

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