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- From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine)
- Subject: Re: Articles About Internet in Mass Media (Was Internet (Globe article))
- Organization: I.E.C.C.
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:14:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.191455.16100@iecc.cambridge.ma.us>
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- The current year-end issue of the Economist has a somewhat tongue-in-cheek
- roundup of networks, mostly cabal-type networks of people, not computers,
- like Skull and Bones, Opus Dei, and the Freemasons. The last ones they
- listed were the Internet and usenet:
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- Internet's speciality is sharing software and computer services, which
- enables researchers to to work closely with colleagues across the world.
- USENET specialises in argument. In addition to electronic mail, its
- principal offering is a few hundred ``newsgroups'', which serve as an
- electronic forum for the discussion of everything from the philosophy of
- artificial intellegence (``Is semiotics an informal logic?'') to sex
- (``Shall I touch you where?''). In the high-tech world, if you're not on
- the net, you're not in the know.
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