Carl Steadman

{{Infobox person

| name = Carl Steadman

| image = The Carl cookie 20230818.jpg

| caption = 2023 photograph of an original plastic-bagged cookie created by Carl Steadman in 1999 and sold through his site

| birth_date = May 30, 1970

| occupation =

| known_for = co-founder of suck.com

| website =

}}

Carl Steadman is co-founder of Suck.com, creator of several pieces of early web-savvy literature and former operator of Plastic.com.{{Cite news

| last = Honan

| first = Mathew

| title = When Automatic's Teller Ran Dry

| work = Online Journalism Review

| accessdate =

| date = 2002-04-03

| url = http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017862636.php

}}{{Cite news

| last = Honan

| first = Mathew

| title = 'Plastic is All I Do'

| work = Online Journalism Review

| accessdate =

| date = 2002-04-03

| url = http://archive-org.com/page/1027716/2012-12-21/http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017862577.php

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| url-status = dead

| archive-date = 2014-12-01

}}

He was also production director for HotWired, and appeared in the 1999 documentary Home Page.{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

Works

[https://web.archive.org/web/20031017020739/http://www.placing.com/ Placing] - "Placing doesn't depict the future so much as portray the present"
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070209224247/http://www.freedonia.com/~carl/rtc/ Rats To Cats!]
"Two Solitudes", a 1995 e-mail story[http://www.intertext.com/magazine/v5n1/solitudes.html Two Solitudes], InterText
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070513164553/http://www.freedonia.com/~carl/ Carl's "tilde site" at Freedonia]
Steadman wrote [https://web.archive.org/web/19961114082454/http://rox.com//quarry/Mall/Job/carl_job/index.html an untitled essay] about leaving Suck.com, published on the Rox website in July 1996.

{{Facebook|guydeboredom|Carl Steadman}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070106142425/http://www.freedonia.com/~carl/index.970321.html Carl's self-written bio] (to about age 26)