Students plug into the Internet for next to nothing. 1995 Grad school in Silicon Valley. The computer lab is my first prolonged exposure to the Internet and the World Wide Web . All I know is that addictive personalities have another cause for worry. 100-plus messages a day, on every detail of every episode.
Assignments fall by the wayside.
Lurking in BBS cross-country becomes commonplace but chat rooms are still taboo territory for me. True to form, it's a Power-Book . The relative speed. The touch pad . It is all part of Apple's deal with the devil, but it plays out so beautifully among the faux Italian palazzi that surround the quad.