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    Thomas Moore's Guide To The Internet
    Thomas Moore's Guide To The Internet
    Thomas Moore's Guide To The Internet
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    Thomas Moore was a door-to-door salesman, private pilot, machinist, soldier, actor, recording engineer, marketing director, aerospace engineer, inventor, sailor and yacht designer – all before he began writing about the Internet. During the mid 1990’s, he wrote a monthly column about the emerging World Wide Web, which appeared in wildly popular underground magazine: WWWiz Magazine. Thomas Moore's Guide To The Internet appeals to readers who are interested in learning about the early cultural and historical beginnings of the world’s largest information exchange network.

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    PublisherNaz Music Inc.
    Release dateJun 19, 2018
    ISBN9781775003106
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    Thomas Moore

    Thomas Moore is the author of the bestselling Care of the Soul and twenty other books on spirituality and depth psychology that have been translated into thirty languages. He has been practicing depth psychotherapy for thirty-five years. He lectures and gives workshops in several countries on depth spirituality, soulful medicine, and psychotherapy. He has been a monk and a university professor, and is a consultant for organizations and spiritual leaders. He has often been on television and radio, most recently on Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul Sunday.

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      Thomas Moore's Guide To The Internet - Thomas Moore

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Foreword

      Chapter 1 – What’s Wrong With Meeting People on the Internet???

      Chapter 2 – Searchin’ Searchin’

      Chapter 3 – Can You Find a Job on the Internet?

      Chapter 4 – SBF – It’s Not a Pretty Site

      Chapter 5 – I Got Them Download Blues

      Chapter 6 – Platform Wars and the First Personal Computer

      Chapter 7 – Just For Laughs – Humor on the Web

      Chapter 8 – You’ve Got Mail (A Film Review)

      Chapter 9 – Being Digital (A Book Review)

      Chapter 10 – CyberStar, the Future that Never Was

      Chapter 11 – New Technology for a Faster Internet

      Chapter 12 – History of the World Wide Web

      Chapter 13 – History of the Internet

      Chapter 14 – Cyber Cafes

      Chapter 15 – Plugging In to Ma Bell

      Chapter 16 – Web Radio – Is Anyone Listening?

      Chapter 17 – Web TV – The Odd Couple?

      Chapter 18 – Net Phone – Ma Bell Didn’t Want You to Talk on the Internet

      Connect with Me Online!

      About the Author

      "The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability; and something is bound to come of it."

      —DR. VANNEVAR BUSH, in 1945

      Dr. Bush was a leading scientist and founder of the Raytheon Corporation. He was appointed by the President to head the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.

      FOREWORD

      Each chapter in this book originally appeared as a monthly column in both online and print versions of WWWiz Magazine during the mid 1990’s, when the introduction of the World Wide Web made the Internet available to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection, instead of just the government, universities, aerospace/defense industries, and a few hobbyists.

      It’s interesting that most of the information in this book is still relevant to today’s Internet, although personal computers have evolved by several generations, into laptops, tablets and smart phones, and the software, or apps (short for applications), also called programs, are astronomically larger than they were 25 years ago. But the idea remains the same. You can search for information and pictures on any subject, comment on news reports, chat with strangers and publish photos of your cat!

      A few of the links, called URL (Universal Resource Locator) Web addresses contained in this book are still active, but most are not, and none of the chat rooms or cyber cafes are currently active. Alta Vista, one of the oldest search engines, is still active, although Google has become the most popular site for searching the Internet, and the evolution will continue. Everything has changed, yet still remains the same!

      One thing has changed, for the better. You will be shocked and amazed at how much it cost for an Internet connection 25 or 30 years ago. And those were real dollars, then.

      Chapters 14 through 18 are a rather nostalgic look back to a time when everyone didn’t have a computer or an Internet connection, so they gathered at cyber cafes, which were coffee shops with several computers, all connected to the Internet. These are still popular in some parts of the world where most people don’t have a personal Internet connection. Today, the modern equivalent of the Cyber Cafe can be found in many public libraries, although that may become obsolete soon, with the proliferation of wireless Internet connections, or wi-fi.

      The ’90’s were a time of dial-up Internet connections, where you could use your (land line) phone to connect to the Internet, but then you couldn’t receive calls or call out at the same time. Later there was DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) from the phone company, and high-speed Internet from cable TV providers. At first there was only one Web browser, called Netscape. It was created by a group of graduate students at The University of Illinois, who called their group Mozilla. Today Mozilla is a non-profit corporation that makes a modern Web browser called FireFox. It’s free to download from Mozilla, and it doesn’t track your Web history and sell your profile to advertisers like some commercial Web browsers do.

      After reading this book, you will know much more about the Internet, including what it actually is, and how it came to be.

      Chapter 1

      

      WHAT’S WRONG WITH MEETING PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET???

      Recently I heard someone say, I wouldn’t want people to know that I met my girlfriend on the Internet. Another young person said, What would my parents think if I went out with someone I met on the Internet? What is it, exactly, that’s wrong with meeting someone on the Internet?

      Well, there is the fact that people sometimes misrepresent themselves in the cloak of invisibility the Internet provides. Sometimes is probably a gross understatement. When I began research on this subject, my friend Al advised me that the young women I might meet in the Internet chat rooms are not always young and, in fact, are not always women. It seems just as likely that any one of them might be a 53-year-old male, getting in touch with his feminine side.

      You’ve heard the horror stories, where people meet in chat rooms, carry on an email romance, exchange photographs, either by email or snail mail, and then, when they meet in real space, they find that one or both have misrepresented themselves. Often they have sent a photograph of themselves when they were younger, or perhaps a photograph of someone else entirely!

      The ultimate sort of gross misrepresentation was reported just recently in the news. It seems a young woman met a fellow in an Internet chat and, after the usual exchanges, they met, had a whirlwind romance followed by an engagement and a large, family wedding, only to discover on the honeymoon that the groom was indeed another woman! She had wrapped her breasts tightly against her chest with a wraparound bandage which, she explained, was because of a recent auto accident. Can you imagine the embarrassment of the bride and her family? This was an Internet romance from the dark side of the Web.

      Another friend told me she discovered that the same guy, using two different handles, was romancing (online) both her and her mother. They had only one computer, so they were never online at the same time. They finally figured out that both of their boyfriends seemed to know the same things; in reality the man had failed to keep his multiple personalities from overlapping.

      Other than that, there’s really nothing wrong with meeting someone on the Internet. In fact, the cloak of invisibility is also responsible for one of the positive aspects of meeting people online. It allows people to be other than their everyday selves. It’s recreational, creative role-playing, and allows people to experiment with behavior which would certainly be difficult, if not impossible, to conduct face-to-face. For example, a man couldn’t begin to understand how a woman would feel in a social situation unless he could be the woman in a blind social interaction. A word of warning, however: the donning of multiple personalities can become an obsession, so one should be careful to indulge in it sparingly. Like wine, it can become intoxicating and interfere with our real lives.

      Meeting people on the Internet has some distinct advantages over meeting people through more direct introductions, especially formal ones. It allows personal interaction between people without the risks of physical contact. It allows one to fail, and then come back as a different person, improving social skills in the process. This column is not about dating, however, although there is always the underlying factor of our gregarious nature. (That means we think about sex a lot.)

      Pen pals have enjoyed that juvenile pastime since before the post office was established, sending their messages in previous times by household servants, when they would not have been allowed to meet anyone in person outside their family. Romeo and Juliet, Miles and Priscilla (Why don’t you speak for yourself, John?) are examples from literature. Also, since they’re usually remote, pen pals can be of the same or opposite sex, younger or older, of different cultures, races, religions, or continents. But wait a minute... doesn’t all that apply to Internet chat?

      You see, when you meet someone in real space (as opposed to cyberspace), you get what’s called a first impression. And you know how accurate those are... NOT! Based on the person’s voice, language, mannerisms and appearance, we form an image of the person, which may or may not represent the inner personality. The real person may even be hiding behind an image contrived to defend themselves, socially. At best, a personal introduction can be tense, until one feels comfortable with another.

      Andre Agassi once said, Image is everything. Then he disproved that by cutting his hair, becoming a nice guy, and continuing to win tennis tournaments. Image is nothing on the Internet. In cyberspace we have no apparent age, race, weight, height, hair or skin color. Strip away all these image elements, and your personality is exposed for what it is. The real you may be seen on the Internet without any first impressions. This is a sort of freedom – freedom from the everyday constraints of our physical social world.

      On Internet chat, the only first impressions are from the nick (nickname), or handle, which you select. When you enter a chat room, usually your handle will be posted in a sidebar, letting everyone in the room know that you are there. A person you meet in Internet chat

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