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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...online for sex? Well, not real sex, which to my old-fashioned way of thinking still involves tangible saliva and sweat, possibly leavened with some actual affection. I'd heard about those kinky Internet newsgroups with names like alt.sex.bondage. I'd read about the use of online services to transmit pornography, including illegal kiddie porn. But no one had warned me that I might log onto AOL for the innocent purpose of, say, perusing the online encyclopedia and wander off for a minute, only to be enlisted in a hot-and-heavy bout of thigh licking. And I've learned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUT YOUR PANTS ON, DEMONBOY | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...consumers, the Senate passed, 81 to 18, a sweeping measure that would deregulate the telephone, cable and broadcasting industries and allow companies to enter one another's fields of business. The bill also seeks to stamp out high-tech smut. One provision would impose tough penalties on people who transmit obscene or indecent materials over computer networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JUNE 11-17 | 6/26/1995 | See Source »

...world is now enmeshed in webs of telecommunication networks consisting of millions of tiny threads or capillaries that not only transmit information of all kinds at lightning speed, but also convey integrated models of social, political and economic behavior...The life of the human race is completely interconnected not only in the informational sense, but in the causal sense as well....We are familiar with CNN and Chernobyl, and we know who the Rolling stones, or Nelson Mandela or Salman Rushdie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement 1995 | 6/24/1995 | See Source »

There's just one problem: it's not legal in most countries. In the U.S., for instance, it is against the law to transmit bets across state lines. And some states, like California, have laws prohibiting gamblers from placing wagers by wire -- in other words, by phone, telex or computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BETTING ON VIRTUAL VEGAS | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...True Dreams of Wichita." Announced as being "the make-out number for the evening," "True Dreams" might be one of the more unconventional love songs ever written. Then again, it might not be a love song at all. With lines like, "I'm half drunk on babble you transmit," and "you can stand...

Author: By Ryan S. Mccarthy, | Title: 'Coughing' Up a Hip Storm | 4/27/1995 | See Source »

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