Word: stollings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's high time people stand up and say, 'Look, you are missing nothing online,' " he says. Stoll has written a controversial new book, Silicon Snake Oil, that he describes as a "yellow warning flag" to would-be networkers. Beware, he says, that when you enter cyberspace, "you are entering a nonexistent universe ... a soluble tissue of nothing...
...complaint that may resonate with millions of computer owners. Part of the problem is that expectations have been set too high. Stoll blasts what he calls "Internet hucksters burbling with falsehoods" about how the network is creating a global village, breaking down geographic boundaries and allowing new communities to grow up around shared interests and ideas...
...Stoll isn't dismissing computers altogether. He acknowledges that the Internet has served him well over the years, allowing him to keep in touch with friends and colleagues, bringing news from around the world. "But at what a price!" he writes. "Simply keeping track of this electronic neighborhood takes a couple of hours every night ... Bit by bit, my days dribble away, trickling out my modem...
...most damning -- and noteworthy -- critiques are coming from a crop of new books written by people who have spent a few years (or in some cases a few decades) in cyberspace and know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place...
Fall 1993: Crimson President Ira E. Stoll is censured by his own executive board for inappropriate conduct. By any standard, the president of a large student organization being reprimanded by his own board is newsworthy...