Peak access occurred at 2 p.m., July 21, when almost 6,000 reached the site. In the latest battle for online access to our government the fine folks at Taxpayer Asset Project are asking the U.S. Dept. of Justice that their upcoming solicitation for online legal services require the winning bidder to place a copy of the database in the public domain and to use a public domain system of citation. They hope to head off West Publishing Company and Mead Data Central, the nation's two major suppliers of online legal info who have a virtual monopoly on expensive legal databases and are fighting to maintain it. During the beta test phase they are offering free accounts to anyone with the latest Mosaic browsers.
Present searches seem to be limited to their test database of computer related articles.
No, we're not talking about the software. Marvel has announced that Archie, the title character of Archie Comics, will select either Betty or Veronica as his steady in four months time. An informal telephone survey in the San Francisco Bay area found Veronica to be the overwhelming choice of those who cared. We are all dwelling in cyberspace, coursing through the wires, becoming cyborg and becoming human. We are subjects of a realm which is totally charted, and completely unknown.