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France is usually cited as the glowing exception to the restrictive European pattern. In the early 1980s, the French government launched Minitel -- a small-screen unit with a keyboard that plugs into a normal telephone wall outlet to connect users with a wide variety of information services. Minitel is now a familiar object in many French homes, partly because of its reputation -- deserved -- as a commercial conduit for suppliers of both hard and soft porn. Despite that sleaze factor, Minitel set the standard during the 1980s as the world's first truly practical and inexpensive provider of interactive services...
...course, you are a consenting adult with some room left on your credit card. The price of ordering the John Wayne Bobbitt video, Uncut: $49.95. Many people like to have this electronic sex in real time and become fixated on ``chat'' -- a kind of phone sex pecked onto a keyboard. Chat on the major online systems has been a dependable cash cow for nearly a decade, and, at rates from $2 to $12 an hour, it is easy to understand...
...happy to announce that with a similarly prodigious effort of overindulgence, I have kicked Minesweeper. I did not avoid the temptation. I drowned it. I played. Night and day. Till I dropped. When I wanted to stop, I didn't. I forced myself back to the keyboard. Grid after grid, I kept hitting the Restart button. Long after I'd had enough, I made myself play some more. And then it broke: I'd played my final game...
...Music's really a big thing for me," he says. "I really like people who are musically talented." Chen and his two roommates own electric guitars, violins and a keyboard, among other instruments. The sophomore says he enjoys playing everything from worship to a capella and club music, partly because his friends at home...
...facilitated, is one thing. Pornography and all sorts of seditious twaddle are online too, where sophisticated children can track them. What can or should be done about that? How do school prayers and family values mesh with the gloriously unfettered freedom of every crank in the world with a keyboard...