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...more like a horse or a bicycle.'' Yet other cybervisionaries say what's most likely to happen is that computers and televisions will continue to serve as complementary, rather than competing, electronic boxes in the home. That way, people could use computers to read E-mail or chat online, and TVs to watch movies or customized news broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE FOR REMOTE CONTROL | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

Singles . . . or doubles, or menages a trois for that matter: the hottest pick-up joints are the chat rooms of America Online's People Connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A HANGOUT FOR EVERY OCCASION | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...modern, well-wired home already offers its occupants a head-spinning array of computer-borne activities. Children use CD-ROMS to play games and hear music. Teenagers flock to online services not only to ``chat'' but also to reach primary schoolwork sources, such as images of original works of art, documents prepared by experts, even possible exchanges of E-mail with the experts themselves. Adults have access to instant stock-market quotes, to online versions of magazines, from Ad Week to Women's Wear Daily, and to a host of ``clubs,'' where people gather to discuss astronomy, genealogy or bicycling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FUTURE IS ALREADY HERE | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

This steamy place doesn't exist in the physical world. It is a ``channel'' on Internet Relay Chat (called IRC among netheads). IRC consists of a series of real-time discussions on the Internet. Think of it as CB radio that you type instead of speak. Any number can play. And lots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE ID | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...rubber goods, the full catalog of kink -- if, of course, you are a consenting adult with some room left on your credit card. The price of ordering the John Wayne Bobbitt video, Uncut: $49.95. Many people like to have this electronic sex in real time and become fixated on ``chat'' -- a kind of phone sex pecked onto a keyboard. Chat on the major online systems has been a dependable cash cow for nearly a decade, and, at rates from $2 to $12 an hour, it is easy to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE ID | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

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