Word: expo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept of interactive fiction is not totally new. The hit of the Czechoslovak pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal was an experimental movie that let the audience vote on the course of the action. But it took the computer, with its awesome power to store and sort text, to turn the concept into a popular art form...
...great strength without internal supports and to cover more space with less material than any other building ever designed. The first commercial sale was to the Ford Motor Co. Other geodesic domes housed DEW-line stations in the Arctic, a concert auditorium in Honolulu and the U.S. Pavilion at Expo '67 in Montreal...
...week stretch. Other Florida beach towns have pressed their bid for the youth market, most notably Fort Lauderdale, setting for a frothy, 1960s-era movie, Where the Boys Are. But Daytona's casual, pro-student atmosphere and wide, drive-on beach have made it the site of both Expo America MusicFest and College Expo, events that combine the hard sell of a trade show with the good-time excitement of a carnival. College Expo ran for five days last week and attracted 80,000 students...
...organizer of College Expo is New York City-based Metacorp, which licensed the festival's name from Playboy Enterprises in 1981. Metacorp helps advertisers by staffing the booths, hiring bands and handling other logistics. President Steven Berkowitz, 25, figures that Metacorp's revenues from providing these services will be $7 million this year, up from $1 million in 1981. "The clients obviously think it works," he says. "They come back every year with bigger budgets." Even the U.S. Army had a booth at MusicFest, where recruiters answered 1,250 inquiries...
...like a card file." Basically, PFS and other listmaking programs are souped-up electronic Rolodexes with built-in cross-reference capabilities. Having stored his trivia on an AppleIIe, Baseball Card Collector Louis Musher, 13, of New York City can call up such arcana as the names of all Montreal Expo catchers who batted .250 or better in 1980. In Sun City, Ariz., Vinton Ostrander, 76, is using his Franklin Ace computer to record the genealogy of some 3,000 relatives and will soon have instant access to 300 years of family history. One New York City editor...