Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like schools, like businesses, like governments, like nearly everyone, it seems, religious groups are rushing online, setting up church home pages, broadcasting dogma and establishing theological newsgroups, bulletin boards and chat rooms. Almost overnight, the electronic community of the Internet has come to resemble a high-speed spiritual bazaar, where thousands of the faithful--and equal numbers of the faithless--meet and debate and swap ideas about things many of us had long since stopped discussing in public, like our faith and religious beliefs. It's an astonishing act of technological and intellectual mainstreaming that is changing the character...
Newsgroups like alt.fan.jesus-christ and alt.religion.scientology are among the 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...
...sanctioned for postering. The fact that there were so many other posters hung up that it was nearly impossible to see any of the original wall was irrelevant. It is Harvard-illegal to hang anything anywhere but the Yard kiosks, the Science Center tack-boards and the House bulletin boards, and those who disregard this law must be prosecuted. The lesson my friend, the offender, gleaned from the whole experience was simple: look carefully before hanging up posters--the Harvard police are on patrol...
Returning to my room after my ill-fated trip to Harvard Hall, I assumed that I had made an idiotic mistake. I grabbed the ad off of my bulletin board and searched for any mention of the program's special nature. I had assumed that SEO stood for Student Employment Office (it actually refers to Sponsors for Educational Opportunity, an organization based in New York), and upon re-examination saw no reason to blame myself for the evening's embarrassment...
...people showed up to hear it. Then Epic decided to promote the band over the Internet. The company opened a Korn page on the Sony Website www.sony.com) It posted bios, concert-tour schedules and daily voice clips from Korn's lead singer, Jonathan Davis, and created a special electronic bulletin board for die-hard Korn fans. Not only has the Website been a big hit ("The Internet traffic is melting us down," says Epic's West Coast general manager Steve Rennie), but record sales have also taken off. Korn's new CD, Life Is Peachy, broke onto Billboard's album...