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...spring semester, and I've got belly buttons on the brain. The navel has traditionally been considered an important body part, central in more than just a physical sense. The ancient Greeks considered Delphi the omphalos, the navel and sprirtual center of the world, and 1950's television censors decreed that Barbara Eden's bellybutton could not peek out of her harem out fit on the otherwise ground-breaking show I Dream of Jeannie. But it's not the navel as a historical concept or source of titillation that has been occupying the dusty corners of my fevered brain, haunting...
That nation is about to get even bigger as the major commercial computer networks -- Prodigy, CompuServe, America Online, GEnie and Delphi Internet Service -- begin to dismantle the walls that have separated their private operations from the public Internet. The success of the Internet is a matter of frustration to the owners of the commercial networks, who have tried all sorts of marketing tricks and still count fewer than 5 million subscribers among them. Most commercial networks now allow electronic mail to pass between their services and the Internet. Delphi, which was purchased by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. in September...
...starters, he paid $525 million in July for 63.6% of Hong Kong-based star tv and its potential to reach 3 billion viewers from Tokyo to Tel Aviv. This month Murdoch upgraded his 50%-owned British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) from six channels to 14, and agreed to acquire Delphi Internet Service, a Massachusetts-based computer network whose gateway to the worldwide Internet system provides access to 20 million computer users...
Murdoch is taking another leap in the dark with his acquisition of Delphi, whose 50,000 subscribers make it the smallest of the five leading U.S. providers of online services to households. Among other things, Murdoch wants to offer an electronic newspaper "where you'll be able to pull up something on a screen that looks like the front page of a paper" -- a longtime goal of the online industry. At the same time, technological advances could permit Delphi to transmit video images and voices into the vast Internet system...
...other photographs on the database--architectural sites and maps--are included to "Let people browse around and acquire a concrete and gut feeling of a living society." Thus, with a few simple clicks on the Macintosh, one can acquire a terrific sense of the a city like Delphi. After locating Delphi on a map of Greece, the viewer can click a few more times for the history of the region and for background on particular structures...