Deja Googled
By: Sam Vaknin
http://groups.google.com/
http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce.html
The Internet may have started as the fervent brainchild of
DARPA, the US defence agency - but it quickly evolved into a
network of computers at the service of a community. Academics
around the world used it to communicate, compare results,
compute, interact and flame each other. The ethos of the
community as content-creator, source of information, fount of
emotional sustenance, peer group, and social substitute is
well embedded in the very fabric of the Net. Millions of
members in free, advertising or subscription financed, mega-
sites such as Geocities, AOL, Yahoo and Tripod generate more
bits and bytes than the rest of the Internet combined. This
traffic emanates from discussion groups, announcement
(mailing) lists, newsgroups, and content sites (such as
Suite101 and Webseed). Even the occasional visitor can find
priceless gems of knowledge and opinion in the mound of trash
and frivolity that these parts of the web have become.
Pages:
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221
222
223