Winter:  Winter 1996-97 went in a slightly different direction.

The masthead lettering was back to black, with the rest of the words written sideways to the right.

Completing our year of telephony-themed pictures, this was a depiction of a woman using a Red Box at a NYNEX payphone in Manhattan (near Madison Square Park).

The Red Box in question was a bona fide RadioShack modified tone dialer.  This payphone was chosen because of the ad for the Business Software Alliance and its ongoing anti-piracy campaign.  We thought it carried a certain irony.

If you look carefully, you'll see "FREE KEVIN" scratched into the side of the phone booth.  This may have been the first use of what would become a rallying cry in subsequent years.

You can see 2600 editor Emmanuel Goldstein in the background with an FLC jacket that looked exactly like an FBI jacket.  FLC were the Fun Lovin' Criminals, friends of the magazine, and the model at the payphone was the girlfriend of the lead singer.