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Take a look around. Chances are that you espied a lamppost, a bulletin board or a kiosk. Since we are in Cambridge, they were probably papered over with posters. Those posters, no doubt, were covered with mind-numbingly stupid slogans. Harvard is supposed to be full of intelligent, discerning human beings; people who delight in scorning the low-brow indulgences of consumer culture. How has it come, then, that we are daily bombarded with home-grown jingles that make meaningless TV ejaculations like "Coke Is It," seem thankfully creative by comparison...
...have raised eyebrows, but hunting down political correctness in the company of Messrs. Bozell and Irvine was distinctly incorrect. Alas for Robinowitz, he left his thoughts on the office computer system (in a file named "Fugitive Slayings"). From there, it was but a step to the capital's nonelectronic bulletin board, the Style section of the Washington Post, where staffers described themselves as "stunned" and "demoralized," and Robinowitz climbed down so fast he scorched his pants. "I was having a bad-hair day," he explained to the Post, "and I'm totally bald...
...service, called TIME Online, will be a two-way street. Whenever readers feel moved to fire off messages, they can do so with the click of a computer mouse. The communications will appear on an electronic "bulletin board," where our staff and other subscribers can read them and respond. (Messages can go directly to our Letters department as well.) As a regular feature, we plan to hold online forums to bring subscribers and newsmakers together. And as the service develops, we will also make material from our advertisers available. Says executive editor Richard Duncan, who will supervise TIME Online: "This...
MUDs (the name stands for Multi-User Dungeons) are the latest twist in the already somewhat twisted world of computer communications. A sort of poor man's virtual reality -- created by using words, not expensive head-mounted displays -- MUDs are a quantum leap over computer bulletin boards, where you not only meet and interact with other computer users from all over the world but build your own imaginary worlds as well. The first MUD was invented in 1979 as a way for British university students to play the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons by computer. But in the past few years...
Fickle hearts plague an electronic-bulletin-board community...