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...have to dial in," said Nannet O. Formani '94, a Currier House resident. "[The system] runs a lot faster, since it's a direct connection. It's always...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Network To Be Put In More Houses | 2/8/1994 | See Source »

...renew our country until we realize that governments don't raise children; parents do" -- had Perot voters and "weak" Clinton supporters assembled in Dayton Tuesday night by the White House twisting their hand-held approval meters. "When he talked about crime," said a Clinton adviser, "the dial groups loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of BILL CLINTON | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...Roto-Rooter, tallying the number of connections (last count: roughly 2 million). But that figure does not include military computers that for security reasons are invisible to other users, or the hundreds of people who may share a single Internet host. Nor does it include millions more who dial into the Internet through the growing number of commercial gateways, such as Panix and Netcom, which offer indirect telephone access for $10 to $20 a month. When all these users are taken into account, the total number of people around the world who can get into the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Nation in Cyberspace | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

...when televisions were dumber than airport washbasins and didn't know you were standing in front of them unless you switched them on. But when I come home from a long day at the recycling plant, I still like to plop down on the ergolounger, crack open a microbrew, dial the teleputer to what we used to call a channel and just veg out. Don't get me wrong. I like the little programmable hostess who greets me every night on my flat-panel screen. In fact, since I upgraded to the new version, the one in the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a 21st Century Couch Potato | 10/25/1993 | See Source »

...current modem users, 16 additional telephone lines have been ordered. This should help prevent students who dial in to the system from getting a busy signal...

Author: By Nicholas Corman, | Title: Busy Signals, Long Waits Frustrate System Users | 9/29/1993 | See Source »

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