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carl
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GNN: The Global Network News
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Jan 16 12:57 UTC 1994 |
Does anyone else subscribe to the Global Network News (GNN)? I recently
subscribed (costs nothing to users) and have been favorably impressed.
It's a nice way to keep in touch with what is new out there in cyberspace.
There is a newsletter type file which is published every two weeks and
has articles about new and timely events. They also publish a magazine
every three months which tends to go more indepth. The topic of the
current issue is education.
GNN isn't exactly like the daily news, but it is a nice resource.
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danr
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response 1 of 9:
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Jan 16 14:34 UTC 1994 |
Sounds interesting. Since it's free, can you repost it here (or make
it accessible in a file somewhere?
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carl
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response 2 of 9:
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Jan 17 03:43 UTC 1994 |
I'll have to check what they permit. I believe I can copy it providing
it is unchanged and GNN gets full credit.
It is cool to see it on hypertext. Certain words are highlighted, and
they contain links to other files. If you see something of interest in
the news, you just press the right arrow to connect to it. If I can
post it here, it won't be hypertext :( but at least you'd be able to
see what it covers.
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carl
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response 3 of 9:
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Jan 17 18:16 UTC 1994 |
Just checked, and they say that it is for subscribers only--and they
specifically request that it not be reposted. That means I can't
post it, but I can tell you where it is, and you can see it for
yourself.
Dial 998-1302 and at the "Which Host?" prompt, type "msu-gopher".
Login as "gopher". At the menus, enter 13, 5, 13, then 10. Press
your "Enter" key, then login as "www". Use the down arrow key
to highlight the GNN option, and press the right arrow. Browse
to your heart's content...
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carl
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response 4 of 9:
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Feb 25 22:19 UTC 1994 |
The Global Network News is now available here through "lynx". It can
be reached through the "Lynx default home page" option under "surfer's
springboards".
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jshafer
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response 5 of 9:
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Jun 3 03:44 UTC 1994 |
BTW, to access the WWW through MichNet, just use msu-gopher and log
in as www instead of gopher.
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script18
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response 6 of 9:
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Nov 26 04:53 UTC 2002 |
What tha heck is this anyways...?
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scott
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response 7 of 9:
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Nov 26 14:03 UTC 2002 |
This, my friend, is "history". Back in the days of the text-only browser,
and MSU gopher too.
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maus
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response 8 of 9:
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Aug 10 15:28 UTC 2003 |
Nostalgia. The web was not always chatrooms, pop-up ads, herbal viagra emailed
to you by hot coeds, snuh, psy-bnc, tear-drop, excessive cross-posting or any
of the other detrius that we take as granted these days.
At one point, it was possible to share ideas, and to find information that was
important, relevant, or at least interesting. Microsoft didn't own it. A mac
was a hip and powerful box, linux was a project, not a phenomenon and spam
came in a can and tasted like a bag of smashed s**t.
DSL was a research project by the IEEE and other engineering groups, to offer a
cheap way to do FDM on the last mile of a packet-switched network, so that t1
could be done more efficiently than a full point-to-point TDM circuit.
Pre-AOL, pre-MSN, pre-WebTV.
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lostkey
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response 9 of 9:
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Oct 2 21:04 UTC 2003 |
Wow.... This is history, wow... back in 1994... I mean... i feel like an alien
when i read this!
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