# Stacy Horn > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stacy_Horn > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Stacy_Horn.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Horn > Source revision: 1355287115 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American author and businesswoman}} {{infobox person | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|6|3}} | birth_place = Norfolk, Virginia | occupation = Author, journalist | alma_mater = [Tufts University](/source/Tufts_University)
[New York University](/source/New_York_University) }} '''Stacy Horn''' (born June 3, 1956) is an American author, businesswoman and occasional journalist. She was born in [Norfolk, Virginia](/source/Norfolk%2C_Virginia), and grew up on [Long Island, New York](/source/Long_Island%2C_New_York). Horn received a B.F.A. from [Tufts University](/source/Tufts_University) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She received a graduate degree from [New York University](/source/New_York_University)'s Interactive Telecommunications Program.{{cite web|url=http://www.stacyhorn.com/?page_id=2|title=Stacy Horn » About|work=stacyhorn.com|date=31 July 2008 |accessdate=28 April 2011}} In 1990, after working as a telecommunications analyst for [Mobil Corporation](/source/Mobil_Corporation), Horn founded Echo, a New York-based [bulletin board system](/source/bulletin_board_system). == EchoNYC == Stacy Horn founded EchoNYC or Echo,{{Cite book |last1=Jennings |first1=Peter |title=The Century |last2=Brewster |first2=Todd |date=November 1998 |publisher=[Doubleday](/source/Doubleday_(publisher)) |isbn=0-385-48327-9 |edition=1st |location=New York |pages=554 |author-link=Peter Jennings |author-link2=Todd Brewster}} a New York City [Internet salon](/source/Internet_caf%C3%A9), in 1990, whose members are called Echoids{{cite news |title=The Net's Horn of Plenty |first=Kenneth |last=Li |date=1998-03-08 |work=[Daily News](/source/Daily_News_(New_York)) |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/money/1998/03/08/1998-03-08_the_net_s_horn_of_plenty.html |accessdate=2008-07-14}}{{cite news |title=Echoids |first=Harold |last=Goldberg |date=1998-02-15 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/02/15/reviews/980215.15goldbet.htm}} and go by their real names rather than a [UserName](/source/UserName). [The WELL](/source/The_WELL), one of the oldest [virtual communities](/source/virtual_communities) in continuous operation, was an influence. Horn later decided that Echo stood for "East Coast Hang Out".{{cite news |title=Sound Bytes; An Electronic Salon, in N.Y. |first=John |last=Markoff |date=1994-03-27 |work=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times) |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A03E5D7113CF934A15750C0A962958260 }} Horn saw the Echo [bulletin board system](/source/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.{{cite news |title=Not for women only: But they are the target audience of the Echo computer on-line service |first=Karen |last=Uhlenhuth |date=1995-11-02 |work=[The Kansas City Star](/source/The_Kansas_City_Star)}} Originally run out of Horn's apartment in [Greenwich Village](/source/Greenwich_Village) in her spare time, Echo rapidly expanded its membership, and eventually consumed every free phone line in her Greenwich Village neighborhood, requiring [New York Telephone](/source/New_York_Telephone) to run a separate cable to Horn's apartment.{{cite news |title=Boom Time on the New Frontier |first=Thomas A. |last=Stewart |date=1993-09-27 |work=[Fortune](/source/Fortune_(magazine)) |url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78374/index.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060520092119/http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78374/index.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 20, 2006 }} In 1990, Echo became a company with a core group of members chosen by Horn for their "strong on-line personalities", who were responsible for creating enticing discussions to attract users.{{cite news |title=Coming to the East Coast: An Electronic Salon |first=Trish |last=Hall |date=1990-01-28 |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D91E3BF93BA15752C0A966958260 |accessdate=2008-07-15}} She donated twenty years worth of Echo's archives to the [New York Historical Society](/source/New_York_Historical_Society).{{cite book | last=Evans | first=Claire | title=[Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet](/source/Broad_Band) | publisher=Portfolio/Penguin | publication-place=New York City | year=2018 | isbn=978-0-7352-1175-9 | oclc=999581264 | page=150}} ==Books== Her first book, ''Cyberville: Clicks, Culture and the Creation of an Online Town'' (Warner Books, 1998), describes the community that formed on Echo, the problems Horn encountered as Echo's final authority, and her observations about the nature of the virtual world. Through the 90s, she was often profiled and quoted in articles about life and business on the internet. Her book is still used in courses on the sociology of virtual communities.[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Amy.Bruckman/teaching/oc/12/schedule.htm] Design of Online Communities, Georgia Tech College of Computing, [http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/hcc/readings.html] Human-Centered Computing, UC Berkeley, [http://www.sociodep.hku.hk/html//core/ccgl9008.pdf] Cybersocieties: Understanding Technology as Global Change. The publication of her second book, ''Waiting For My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir'' (St. Martin's Press, 2001), a memoir about her midlife crisis, revealing an unusual fascination with death, coincided with a series of commentaries for the NPR's All Things Considered on the same subject. Her third book, ''The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad'' (Viking, 2005), recounts the stories of four of New York's cold cases and profiles the detectives who investigate them. Her fourth book, ''Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory'', was published in 2009. Her fifth book is about singing. It is titled ''Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing With Others'', and it was published by Algonquin Books in 2013. Her sixth book, titled ''Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York'', is about [Blackwell's Island](/source/Roosevelt_Island) and was also published by Algonquin Books in May, 2018. Her seventh book, ''The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood'', uses the history of East New York, Brooklyn, to explore the connection between white collar crime and the destruction of neighborhoods of color across America. It was published by Gillian Flynn Books and Zando Projects in January, 2025.{{cite web | url=https://zandoprojects.com/books/the-killing-fields-of-east-new-york/ | title=The Killing Fields of East New York }}{{cite web |last=Enrich |first=David |date=2025-01-28 |title=Book Review: 'The Killing Fields of East New York,' by Stacy Horn |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/books/review/stacy-horn-killing-fields-of-east-new-york.html |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=The New York Times}} ==Selected bibliography== * {{cite book |title=Cyberville: Clicks, Culture, and the Creation of an Online Town |first=Stacy |last=Horn |date=January 1998 |location=New York |publisher=[Warner Books](/source/Warner_Books) |isbn=978-0-446-51909-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/cybervilleclicks00horn }} * {{cite book |title=Waiting for My Cats to Die: A Morbid Memoir |first=Stacy |last=Horn |location=New York |publisher=[St. Martin's Press](/source/St._Martin's_Press) |year=2001 }} * {{cite book |title=The Restless Sleep: Inside New York City's Cold Case Squad |first=Stacy |last=Horn |location=New York |publisher=[Viking](/source/Viking) |year=2005 }} * {{cite book |title=Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory |first=Stacy |last=Horn |location=New York |publisher=[Ecco](/source/Ecco_Press) |year=2009 }} * {{cite book |title=Imperfect Harmony: Finding Happiness Singing With Others |first=Stacy |last=Horn |location=New York |publisher=[Algonquin Books](/source/Algonquin_Books) |year=2013 }} * {{cite book |title=Damnation Island: : Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York |first=Stacy |last=Horn |location=New York |publisher=[Algonquin Books](/source/Algonquin_Books) |year=2018 }} * {{cite book |title=The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood |first=Stacy |last=Horn |location=New York |publisher=[Gillian Flynn Books and Zando Projects](/source/Gillian_Flynn_Books_and_Zando_Projects) |year=2025 }} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.stacyhorn.com Stacy Horn's Official Website]. * [http://www.therestlesssleep.com Stacy Horn's Restless Sleep Blog] – A resource for cold case investigation. * [http://www.echonyc.com/ Echo] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Horn, Stacy}} Category:1956 births Category:Living people Category:Internet pioneers Category:Women Internet pioneers Category:Writers from New York City Category:American non-fiction crime writers Category:American businesswomen Category:American women founders Category:American founders Category:21st-century American women Category:American women crime writers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Stacy Horn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Horn) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacy_Horn?action=history)). 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