Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pentagon's Defense Systems Network, which has its own lines or leases special lines from phone companies to send encrypted messages. To penetrate that system, a hacker would first have to wiretap a dsnet line, then break the sophisticated encryption of its messages, as well as steal another user's password to get past the main menu...
...much more user-friendly," Cheng added...
Sometimes, Internet users simply chat and get to know one another. Frequently, this "knowing" approximates the biblical sense of the word. While, IRC is not exclusively a sex chat line, the vast user population implies that a significant number will put it to libidinous...
...private activities at either end of the exchange. Those who cruise for 'netsex do it much more boldly than those who try for it in the flesh. IRC channels devoted to looking for love are peppered with calls of "Anybody horny?" "Any ladies out there?" and statements extolling a user's physical virtues. In non-'net terms, these channels amount to a room full of people milling about with signs proclaiming their libidinal urges...
...Another user had an Internet date of sorts,brief courtship process and all. "I was onceinvited to the channel #woodswith anotherwoman," says a Harvard senior. "Even though it wasprobably a man posing as a woman. I thought it waskind of cute to be going off into the woodstogether." Who said there was no romance left inthe world...