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Grex Internet Item 14: GNN: The Global Network News
Entered by carl on Sun Jan 16 12:57:33 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.

9 responses total.

#1 of 9 by danr on Sun Jan 16 14:34:13 1994:

Sounds interesting.  Since it's free, can you repost it here (or make
it accessible in a file somewhere?

#2 of 9 by carl on Mon Jan 17 03:43:26 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.

#3 of 9 by carl on Mon Jan 17 18:16:07 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...

#4 of 9 by carl on Fri Feb 25 22:19:31 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".

#5 of 9 by jshafer on Fri Jun 3 03:44:47 1994:

BTW, to access the WWW through MichNet, just use msu-gopher and log
in as www instead of gopher.

#6 of 9 by script18 on Tue Nov 26 04:53:44 2002:

What tha heck is this anyways...?

#7 of 9 by scott on Tue Nov 26 14:03:44 2002:

This, my friend, is "history".  Back in the days of the text-only browser,
and MSU gopher too.

#8 of 9 by maus on Sun Aug 10 15:28:38 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.

#9 of 9 by lostkey on Thu Oct 2 21:04:02 2003:

Wow.... This is history, wow... back in 1994... I mean... i feel like an alien
when i read this!

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