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To: Wizzer who wrote (1145)4/13/1998 1:18:00 AM
From: Lady Lurksalot  Read Replies (1) of 4710
 
Wisam,

I too have found most people I have encountered on the Internet to be friendly, helpful, and other good things. The same was true of the old BBSs (bulletin board systems). There is a genuine sense of community in the online world. The BBSs are pretty much gone now, having been absorbed into the World Wide Web and Internet, and only a few of the old free-standing diehards remain.

The Internet was a government project begun in 1969 and was intended to serve as communication in the event of nuclear or other disaster. It linked universities and government and various research centers. A lot can be found via any web search engine in the way of more information about the origin and progression of the Internet into what it is today and will be in the future.

The World Wide Web, which most people know as the Internet is new since about 1993. However, many people, particularly those in academia, still access the Internet with text only, I included about half the time. Those of us who still use the old and very awkward Unix online text editor (wordprocesser) will not always produce polished and perfect prose because of the limitations of that text editor. Why it has never been updated is a mystery to most of us.

Holly
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