Word: modem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spot's popularity quickly gave rise to more than a dozen other cybersoap clones. Now the modem ready can revel in series such as Lake Shore Drive, which chronicles yuppie intrigue in Chicago, and Ferndale, a saga about patients in a psychoanalytic clinic, one of whom is a man hoping to become a lesbian...
...people truly fall in love via modem? What are the psychic rewards and risks of computer-mediated romance...
Goldwitz said many students access the UCD system via modem. The fee increase is being considered mainly because the large number of students using the modem pool have driven up costs, she said...
Other advantages to outsourcing include faster modem connection, more technical assistance and the elimination of charges for students making long distance calls...
...these technothriller novels: self-absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated the minds of young writers everywhere, such that they cannot imagine...