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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lifelong fan of game shows and host of two Harvard-Radcliffe Media Network shows, Ilagan heard about the new program taping and decided to audition for his 15 minutes of fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Appears on New Game Show | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...claiming to be able to purge the Net completely of evil. As a result of the crackdown, says agent Nick, "I'm sure there are a lot of hard drives being reformatted throughout the world." But, he says, "we certainly disrupted a network, and with any luck, we'll be able to pick off a few of them." His warning to parents: "You can't just put a computer in your kids' bedroom, hook it up to the Internet and expect them not to run into trouble. That's like dropping your kids off at the playground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Main Street Monsters | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...show. Stern, who was merciless to the basketballer while Johnson had a talk show, got slapped with the most dire content warning (TV-MA), lower national Nielsen ratings than a nonlive version of rival Saturday Night Live and a DD cup's worth of critical bile for his debut network effort. The show, which featured Stern abusing a female body builder and several guests who were hoping to win free cosmetic surgery, was called "the smelly underpants of late-night television" by the L.A. Times, "the dregs of the dregs" by the Washington Post and, probably most hurtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 7, 1998 | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...People are going to use this to control their environment," says John Stupka, CEO of Jackson, Miss.-based SkyTel, which boasts the nation's only advanced messaging network. (Others are being rolled out.) Stupka cited a survey showing that the average information worker handles on the order of 190 e-mail and voice messages a day. He argues that everyone will have to figure out ways to control that message flow. The two-way pager is a means to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beeping Back | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...larger than a deck of cards and has a teensy but functional keyboard (you can set it so that it makes the cutest clicking noises when you type) and a very readable monochrome screen. The Pagewriter's main function is to send and receive e-mail on the same network that pagers use. Something about handling e-mail while on the fly--from the train, say, or even in the bathtub--appealed to me. I also liked the idea that I might be able to get rid of some of my electronic luggage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beeping Back | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

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