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The authors of Computers and the Teaching of Writing in American Higher Education, 1979-1994: A History conclude their analysis of pedagogy and technology where hypertext popularly begins—with the Web's birth in the early '90s and its diffusion through widespread usage of graphic reading browsers like Mosaic and Netscape. Trapped between my temporal mix and hypertext is this historical collection. Missing from this history of computers and writing, though, is the rhetoric of electronic writing my DJ performance attempts to construct. The editors highlight memorable computers and composition moments leading up to 1994, but not how technology rhetorically functions or produces knowledge (it might have been too early to ask such questions). One comment, however, foregrounds what continues to be a problem in developing alternative technology-based pedagogical approaches within composition studies—and which motivates my project. Speaking about the early '90s, Selfe et al. remark:

Many teachers and school administrators remained undereducated about technology, and hence, technology was often used to support traditional pedagogical approaches rather than innovative teaching methods. (262)