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Which makes what's happening on the computer networks all the more startling. Every night, when they should be watching television, millions of computer users sit down at their keyboards; dial into CompuServe, Prodigy, America Online or the Internet; and start typing -- E-mail, bulletin-board postings, chat messages, rants, diatribes, even short stories and poems. Just when the media of McLuhan were supposed to render obsolete the medium of Shakespeare, the online world is experiencing the greatest boom in letter writing since the 18th century...
...sweep, when it came last month, was swift and thorough. Dozens of Italian customs officers fanned out across the country and began pounding on doors in Milan, Bologna, Pisa and Pesaro. Their target: a loose alliance of computer bulletin-board operators suspected of trafficking in stolen software. By last week, according to unofficial reports, the Italian police had shut down more than 60 computer bulletin boards and seized 120 computers, dozens of modems and more than 60,000 floppy disks. In their zeal, say the suspects, some officers of the Guardia di Finanza grabbed anything even remotely high-tech, including...
...casual visitor to the newsgroups on the Usenet (a bulletin-board system that began as a competitor to the Internet but has been largely subsumed by it) will discover discussion groups labeled, according to the Net's idiosyncratic cataloging system, alt.sex.masturbation, alt.sex.bondage and alt.sex.fetish.feet. On Internet Relay Chat, a global 24-hour-a-day message board, one can stumble upon imaginary orgies played out with one-line typed commands ("Now I'm taking off your shirt . . ."). In alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, a user can peek at snapshots that would make a sailor blush...
Lisa was so enthralled with her bulletin-board lover that she decided to move on to what WELL users call an F2F -- a face-to-face. She agreed to split the cost of a plane ticket to fly her telephonic paramour to the West Coast. "We had a great weekend," she says, "including fabulous sex." But afterwards her lover turned cold, and the e-mail correspondence dissolved. A heartbroken Lisa grieved on a section of the network called WOW (Women on the WELL) -- where no men are allowed. And that is how she met Beth and Nancy and discovered that...
...admits he conducted cyberrelationships with more than one woman at a time, he insists he is the victim in this matter. "I feel my privacy was radically violated," he says of the women's electronic onslaught. "I didn't make any relationship promises I didn't keep." In the bulletin-board free-for-all, he wrote, "I believe that I was supportive, caring and tender with these women. I gave as good as I got." He adds, "I was experimenting in a new area for me. I didn't think that the same concerns about fidelity I apply reflexively...