Word: gabfests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time -- and what 17.5 million modem-equipped computer users around the world have discovered -- is that cyberspace is also a new medium. Every night on Prodigy, CompuServe, GEnie and thousands of smaller computer bulletin boards, people by the hundreds of thousands are logging on to a great computer-mediated gabfest, an interactive debate that allows them to leap over barriers of time, place, sex and social status. Computer networks make it easy to reach out and touch strangers who share a particular obsession or concern. "We're replacing the old drugstore soda fountain and town square, where community used...
...after 10 years in New York City, he moved the program to Burbank, reflecting an industry-wide migration from the East to the West Coast. In 1980 the show was cut from 90 minutes to an hour, creating a tighter entertainment package out of the more free-flowing gabfest that had become, in some ways, a relic of an earlier TV era. (One element that was lost: book authors, who had often been slotted in the final 15 minutes but who disappeared from the show almost entirely.) One by one, competing talk-show hosts -- Merv Griffin, Joey Bishop, Cavett, Alan...