Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Control Video, a Virginia-based company with the premature idea of shipping Atari video games to home computers over telephone lines. Two weeks after Case arrived, the firm's capital dried up. Out of the ashes, Case crafted Quantum Computer Services. His idea was to create an online bulletin board for owners of Commodore 64 computers. It wasn't a sexy niche, but he thought it might have potential...
...TIME Bulletin Board: Princess Di's Death
...also hang out online a lot, and now and then on the Net someone will impersonate me, spoofing my E-mail address or posting stupid stuff to bulletin boards or behaving in a frightfully un-Quittner-like manner in chat parlors from here to Bianca's Smut Shack. It's annoying, I suppose. But in the end, the faux Quittners get bored and disappear. My reputation, such as it is, survives...
WASHINGTON: The marathon strike talks between UPS and the Teamsters have resumed, with the union's leader Ron Carey at the table. And despite the fact that Carey issued a bulletin preparing members for more strike action, there is cause for optimism. While UPS says its formal position has not moved, the company has shown a willingness to compromise...
...ways. The more primitive method is to search for key words in the pages' titles, a system with all the subtlety of a Gatling gun. America Online, for instance, once banned the word breast from some areas of its service, which outraged breast-cancer sufferers locked out of their bulletin boards. And SurfWatch legendarily banned sites featuring the word couples, only to discover that that word appears on the White House's official site...