Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle- aged computer whizzes and elementary school kids who seem to have been wired since birth. During the first month of her course, teacher Fulton, who designed the class two years ago, exhorts her students to conquer the Net before they do anything else. They become comfortable using BBSs (bulletin-board systems), IRC (Internet Relay Chat), MUDs (multiple-user dungeons), Usenet newsgroups and such World Wide Web browsers as Mosaic and Gopher. But Fulton also engages them in discussions of related social and political issues such as privacy, universal access and the role of governmental regulation...
...founded with a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, lobbies successfully in Washington for civil rights in cyberspace. In the years since Levy's book, a fourth generation of revolutionaries has come to power. Still abiding by the Hacker Ethic, these tens of thousands of netheads have created myriad computer bulletin boards and a nonhierarchical linking system called Usenet. At the same time, they have transformed the Defense Department-sponsored ARPAnet into what has become the global digital epidemic known as the Internet. The average age of today's Internet users, who number in the tens of millions, is about...
...began innocently enough: I was stuck at home, recovering from back surgery, and needed some diversion. Bored with channel surfing and unable yet to return to running, I borrowed a PC from the office, hooked up a modem and began to check out the local computer bulletin board (BBS) scene...
...Angeles Times, thought he had written a pretty good story about how a government-funded computer at one of the nation's nuclear weapons labs had been used to store more than 1,000 pornographic images on the Internet. When he later logged onto the WELL bulletin-board service, he found he'd been flamed to a crisp. ``Misleading,'' complained one member. ``Excrement!'' cried another. He got so much electronic hate mail that he had to turn off his mailbox. ``The impression I got was, `We don't want snoopy reporters in here. This is our playground...
...watched closely by just about everyone in the computer world. It was that of David LaMacchia, an M.I.T. undergraduate who was charged last April with conspiring to distribute millions of dollars' worth of illegally copied commercial software over the Internet. LaMacchia allegedly set up and ran an online bulletin board that allowed anyone who accessed it to copy for free a variety of software programs. Touted as the largest single instance of software piracy ever uncovered, LaMacchia's case was thrown out last December by Massachusetts Federal Judge Richard Stearns, who decided that the senior from Rockville, Maryland...