Word: snail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Millman's thesis was on the ethnic implicationsof Rhode Island snail salad, a dish which only hasthat name in Rhode Island and is consumed mostlyby the Italian-Americans, he says...
...mail is by far the most popularservice offered over the network. While overnightpackage delivery generally takes 17 hours, e-mailis virtually instantaneous. About 27 millionmessage travel over the Internet daily ,and thatnumber is increasing at such a pace that e-mailwill eclipse envelope-and-stamp "snail mail"within five years according to national estimates...
...will live, and who will die? Those who can traverse the Information Superhighway the best will be able to pass their dominant genes to those of the next generation. Technology rolls ahead, and those still living in caves will be left behind to write snail mail and watch simple 12 channel public television...
Love letters may be back in fashion--in a different form. The Abelards and Heloises, the Vicomtes de Valmont and the Marquises de Merteuil of today communicate via e-mail, the technology of the '90s, not via the post, known affectionately as snail mail...
...magazines could learn many things about graphic design from the inset photos and graphics and various display faces Leslie deploys; the art (last issue had cover art by Chris Knox!) is neat, too, but the meat of the magazine is interviews--with Peter Jefferies, Barbara Manning, Madder Rose, A. Snail, Crystallized Movements, S. Moxham and various lesser lights worth learning about. Other record reviews are by one or more members of Sebadoh. If I've convinced you to check out one and only one commercially available fanzine, Popwatch should probably be it. Can't find it? Unlikely...