Horn saw the Echo bulletin board system as a place where conversation could revolve around literature, film, culture, and sex, rather than the more pervasive topics of computer technology at the time. Horn later decided that Echo stood for 'East Coast Hang Out'. The WELL, one of the oldest virtual communities in continuous operation, was an influence. Stacy Horn founded EchoNYC, a New York City Internet salon, in 1990, whose members are called Echoids.

In 1990, after working as a telecommunications analyst for Mobil Corporation, Horn founded Echo, a New York-based bulletin board system. She received a graduate degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

She grew up on Long Island, New York and received a B.F.A. In a tale that is exceedingly relevant today, Horn shows us how far we've come-and how much work still remains.Stacy Horn (born Jin Norfolk, Virginia) is an American author, businesswoman and occasional journalist. For history fans, and for anyone interested in the ways we care for the least fortunate among us, Damnation Island is an eye-opening look at a closed and secretive world.

Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Blackwell's missionary Reverend French, champion of the forgotten, as he ministers to these inmates, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Corrections Department and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man's inhumanity to man. Damnation Island re-creates what daily life was like on the island, what politics shaped it, and what constituted charity and therapy in the nineteenth century. Stacy Horn has crafted a compelling and chilling narrative told through the stories of the poor souls sent to Blackwell's, as well as the period's city officials, reformers, and journalists (including the famous Nellie Bly). There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island.

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