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...that preceded the Internet. In 1978, a man named Gary Turk sent an e-mail solicitation to 400 people, advertising his line of new computers. (Turk later said his methods proved so unpopular that it would be more than a decade before anyone would try again.) In late 1994, Usenet - a newsgroup precursor to the Internet - was inundated by an advertisement for the immigration-law services of Laurence A. Canter and Martha S. Siegel. Despite the ensuing outcry, the lawyers defended their practice, called their detractors anti-free speech "zealots" and wrote a book about the practice titled...
Martin offers prolonged nattering about the subtleties of the Usenet and recaps some of the rules with which the gentle Netsurfer is familiar: no flaming (insulting) or using all capital letters (shouting). One might as well take a beeper to church (another no-no). Furthermore, the well-bred cyberuser will not drop emotional bombs--"You're fired...
...scientists who were given free Internet access quickly discovered that the network was good for more than official business. They used it to send each other private messages (E-mail) and to post news and information on public electronic bulletin boards (known as Usenet newsgroups). Over the years the Internet became a favorite haunt of graduate students and computer hackers, who loved nothing better than to stay up all night exploring its weblike connections and devising new and interesting things for people to do. They constructed elaborate fantasy worlds with Dungeons & Dragons themes. They built tools for navigating...
Steen said that the evaluation was also wrong about Harvard’s overall number of public computers, provision of web pages, access to Usenet groups, availability of multimedia equipment and network access in dormitory lounges...
Davis also saw the question of whether students have access to Usenet as obsolete. He remembers using those from his freshman year...