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...Weinberg's chief destinations is the 15,000-strong SeniorNet, where she spends several hours a day chatting with others her age in the organization's station on America Online. Many seniors find the network a rich source of new friends and support in time of trouble as well as a handy supplier of information on such subjects as how to light a water heater or handle depression. ``For many older people, computers allow them to feel as if their world is still expanding,'' says Mary Furlong, who founded the San Francisco-based SeniorNet in 1986. ``They allow...
...projects are composed in the same multimedia format used for instruction. In addition, students are being primed for the world of the Internet by taking part in the school's own E-mail and bulletin-board system. They log onto the Dalton Network from home or at school to ``chat'' with friends, confer with teachers or join online discussions of movies and records. The most remarkable feature of the system, however, is the ``conferences'' -- discussion groups associated with certain courses. This year's most popular spins off a senior-class seminar in civil rights. Not only do all 17 students...
...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...
...missed even the obvious idiosyncrasies. Visiting and posting frequently in Internet newsgroups about exercise equipment are not the same as exercising. Playing Tetris was not what my doctor had prescribed for my carpal-tunnel syndrome. Discussing lingerie via my online service's ``chat'' utility was not a good substitute for a Friday-night date. (My last serious girlfriend mentioned something about that, but I lost her E-mail address...
...known him for about a year now," saidGregory J. Davis '95, a Mather House resident, whois Black. "A number of students chat withhim--he's very gregarious. I've seen him deal withall kinds of students--men and women, Black andwhite... and I've never witnessed any unfair orhostile remarks in my presence...