Word: aol
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...busiest--and most contentious--of the nearly 20,000 discussion groups carried on Usenet. America Online and CompuServe, the two largest commercial online services, are each home to hundreds of electronic bulletin boards that offer everything from Confucian primers to Q. and A.s about Jewish dietary laws. (One urgent aol query: Is it O.K. to have a pot-bellied pig as a pet if you keep a kosher kitchen? Answer: Probably. As long as you don't plan...
...bulletin boards draw scores of believers hunting for new ways to understand their old religions. For Fundamentalists prohibited from openly discussing such social issues as homosexuality and abortion, the Net has become the best--and sometimes the only--way to get exposed to a wide range of religious opinion. aol users this fall have been able to follow the life of an Egyptian girl expelled from her family after converting to Christianity. "My mother gave me up," she wrote, recounting the apostasy that cost her her family even as an online debate raged around her. "I understand your anger...
...have caused for Americans back in their day. The Internet has become all inclusive: anyone having anything to say, any company wishing to advertise are all a part of it. Industries and individuals alike have developed themselves through this tool. And anybody who is anybody has a .com or .aol after their name. It is the new tradition...
Though not necessarily cheap for the audience, TEN and Mpath will charge subscriber fees of about $2.00 an hour, which adds up quickly with games as addictive as Quake and Duke Nukem 3-D. Engage, taking a safer tack, is offering its wares through Prodigy and AOL. Eventually, these services will probably have to adopt flat monthly rate structures more in tune with the free-for-all spirit of the Internet--and much easier on the pockets of habitual game players. Indeed, TEN is already offering subscribers a $29.95, unlimited-use option...
Then there's the competition. AOL, for instance, with more than 6 million subscribers, is revamping its popular Games Channel, which already offers scores of multiplayer games, from strategy and combat games like Air Warriors to classics like chess and Trivial Pursuit, and recently purchased inn to add to its gaming roster. "We're focusing on games that are designed specifically for an online environment," says Lawrence Schick, AOL's general manager for games. "We're really developing a community...