Word: compunet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese people from the information highway? asks a billboard in Beijing. The answer, according to the billboard: 100 meters--the distance to the headquarters of CompuNet, China's first commercial online service and one of a handful of companies offering citizens access to the Internet...
...another sign that the Communist Party is loosening its once total control over the flow of information in China. Some 40,000 Chinese are already online, either through the government-run ChinaNet or through outfits like 1+Net, which runs CompuNet and a sister site on the Web (http://www.ihw.co.cn...
...CompuNet has been open for business only six months but already has 2,000 paying customers. "Chinese youth can accept this quickly," says CompuNet co-founder Zhang Shuxin. "You just need a good way to introduce it." Zhang, a 33-year-old entrepreneur, caught the online bug while touring America in 1994, and has picked up a few high-caffeine marketing techniques. In January she opened the Cybercafe, a night spot in the lobby of the Beijing Concert Hall where both the wired and the wannabes gather to exchange E-mail and breathe the Internet's libertarian...
Zhang takes pains to weed overtly political speech from CompuNet's bulletin boards. But information, as they say on the Net, wants to be free, and it's not clear how much free expression the Communist Party will tolerate. The government has already outlawed the online transmission of pornography and state secrets, and in February it required all Internet users to register with the police. The Chinese people may be only 100 meters from the information highway, but those last 100 meters could be the trickiest...
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