Word: downloading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what it tells us about ourselves. Pornography's appeal is surprisingly elusive. It plays as much on fear, anxiety, curiosity and taboo as on genuine eroticism. The Carnegie Mellon study, drawing on elaborate computer records of online activity, was able to measure for the first time what people actually download, rather than what they say they want to see. "We now know what the consumers of computer pornography really look at in the privacy of their own homes," says Marty Rimm, the study's principal investigator. "And we're finding a fundamental shift in the kinds of images they demand...
...pornography is different on the computer networks. You can obtain it in the privacy of your home--without having to walk into a seedy bookstore or movie house. You can download only those things that turn you on, rather than buy an entire magazine or video. You can explore different aspects of your sexuality without exposing yourself to communicable diseases or public ridicule. (Unless, of course, someone gets hold of the computer files tracking your online activities, as happened earlier this year to a couple dozen crimson-faced Harvard students...
...users. For instance, Internet Talk Radio, based in Washington, has broadcast an interview show called Geek of the Week for two years, but home listeners have had to be patient: even using a high-speed, 14,400-bit-per-second modem, it took an average of two hours to download a 15-minute show...
...result: Word Internet Assistant, which Microsoft is making available free to the public via the World Wide Web (to download it yourself, use Mosaic or Netscape to open the URL http://www.microsoft.com/pages/deskapps/word/ia)....
...large commercial providers such as America Online. One of the best-read sections of Usenet is alt.sex, a newsgroup so popular it has spawned more than 60 offshoots, from alt.sex.bestiality.barney to alt.sex.woody-allen. Half a dozen other Usenet groups also store free, X-rated images that users can download and view on their computers. On the multimedia portion of the Internet known as the Web, Penthouse and others serve up free, frontally nude cyber-pinups. Those sites are frequently jammed beyond capacity. (Last year a Carnegie Mellon graduate student surveying sex on the Internet determined that 450,620 pornographic images...