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PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET
INTRODUCTION
The truly wonderful thing about the internet is
that it gives you access to all manner of people that you
wouldn't otherwise come across in your daily life. People all
around the world want to meet, chat, become friends, and
sometimes even form more solid relationships. All this has its
downside too, of course, since there often seems little point in
conversing with people whom you can't see or hear, hence wouldn't
know even if you met them on the street. But technology is
changing this too.
It's difficult to escape the notion of elitism in all this, however. It is, after all, the plaything of those people with the money to afford computers and the time to go looking for other people. There are millions of poor and lonely people out there in in the world to whom a kind word or gesture could prove even more beneficial.
This is where the big ideas and money is going, in the next stage of WWW development. Virtual meeting-places, avatars, and sensory-interplay are all the rage. But a good old-fashioned conversation is just as appealing - in the right company. By the way, my ICQ number is 22623930 in case you want to have a chat online - but check here first.
CYBERCAFES
Cybercafes seem to have taken off in a big way - though studies seem to have found that most people just access their email and surf aimlessly in them.
DIRECTORIES
Internet searching brings the telephone to a new level of utility. Now if only someone would do the same for fax directories.
I really think that email is the future of the information revolution, provided that it is developed in a meaningful and coherent manner. After all, why should you go out looking for information when it can be delivered to your (digital) doorstep?
NEWSGROUPS
SEARCH ENGINES
411
Locate Locate
a Web site or e-mail address by a phone number, name, company
name, or reverse e-mail lookup.
Ahoy! Search for people's personal homepages
AltaVista
People Search Only
last name is mandatory
AnyWho
People Search Search
by name, provides info and map (Enter last name and any other
info)
Bigfoot A huge e-mail and whitepage directory
(Enter Firstname Lastname)
OKRA
net.citizen Directory Service Lists over 5.3 Million email addresses
WhoWhere?
People Search Comprehensive
White Page service (Enter last name and first name)
World
Email Directory (Enter
last name and, optionally, the first name)
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