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Grex Internet Item 62: Mainstream Magazine shows off its internet savvy.
Entered by srw on Wed Jul 27 07:23:51 UTC 1994:

A year ago you never could have convinced me that by now internet activities
would be covered in this kind of detail by a mainstream mnagazine like
Newsweek. Nevertheless the following is copied verbatim from the Aug 1 issue.

ALL DISNEY ALL THE TIME

Delighted by Simba's advent? Worried about Michael Eisner's health?
Ready toorole-play as a 'toon> You're not alone. In rec.arts.disney, a very
popular usenet newsgroup, there are more than 200 threads waiting for you to
pull. Lurkers can head straight for the FDC (Future Disney Cabinet)
postings, This role-playing exchange can be charming-imagine Tinker Bell 
talking back to a studio exec, or the cast members of "The Lion King" acting
out their roles - but recently a few characters took over a branch of MIT's 
Wacko MUD, or multi-user-dungeon, and were reprimanded by the school.
For a look, telnet to redbranch.mit.edu 6003. Once inside, check out
Never-Land and Palace Atlantica from "The Little Mermaid".

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I wonder how many Newsweek readers didn't understand that?

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by robh on Wed Jul 27 10:32:27 1994:

What better is that the article didn't slam the Internet in some
way or another.  If I see one more article about how Canter and
Siegel are the nicest people in the world and are being
"misunderstood" by the evil computer users because of a "clash
of cultures", I'm gonna puke.

Anybody else see the article in Time last week?  I actually
liked it, and I can't stand news-weeklies in general.

#2 of 3 by srw on Wed Jul 27 14:20:49 1994:

Check out item 63 in agora.

#3 of 3 by rcurl on Mon Aug 29 15:34:08 1994:

More articles are appearing about the Internet and, in particular,
the implementations for WWW. Here are two more:

_Exploring the Internet - Part 1_ by Steve Ford, WB8IMY, QST, Sept. 1994,
pp 43-45. Subtitled, "Welcome to Cyberspace". An introductory overview
of what the Internet is, how it works, and its relation to amateur radio
packet TCP/IP. Future articles will also be elementary introductions to
accessing ARRL services, ftp, gopher, etc. 

_The World Wide Web_, by Brian Hayes, American Scientist, Sept-Oct 1994,
pp 416-420. A general description of the Web, but written for an audience
of scientists, so it dips a little into http, html, href, urls, etc. A
few URLs to explore are described (including coke machines).

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