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My last column (ONLINE March/April 1995) compared the features of some of the freely available World-Wide Web clients--sometimes called readers or browsers. While there are problems with all of them, [...]

Prior to construction of the interstate highway system in the 1950s, much of the U.S. economy was localized - local manufacturers, suppliers, and retailers - because of geographical and distance [...]

With 25 million users, on hundreds of thousands of networks, typing away and creating 8,456 characters on their keyboards every second of every day, the Internet is becoming an increasingly [...]

1. REFUSE IT Adapted from The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, by Sven Birkerts, to be published later this year by Faber and Faber. Birkerts's [...]

Members of the online community have created for themselves a vast, multidimensional information and human resource called the Internet. This network of networks links about 1 million hosts, 10,000 networks, […]

Librarians and information specialists in all types of settings are using the Internet to expand the array of information resources available to them. The telnet capability makes accessible at no […]

Ninety per cent of everything available on the net is garbage: but the same goes for your local newsagent and even for the contents of the British Library. Much of [...]

Federal data Agencies at all levels of government have been quick to realize the efficiency of distributing public information via the Internet. It is, after all, a government creation. As […]

Members of the online community have created for themselves a vast, multi-dimensional information and human resource called the Internet. This network of networks links about 1 million hosts, 10,000 networks, […]

We are pleased to announce the marriage of Communication World and the World-Wide Web - the collection of Internet computer files which boasts great graphics and hypertext hot links. CW [...]

Over the last year, magazines and newspapers have focused a lot of attention on the Internet, and many writers have waxed effusive in their admiration of it. But what can [...]

On all the library-oriented Internet sites, the refrain echoes time and again: 'The net is too chaotic! If only librarians were in charge!' A macro level change (the computer revolution) […]

Telecommunications guru Dr. Vinton Cerf was in San Diego recently with a message for the business community: 'Pay attention to the Internet. It's the world's biggest focus group.' That is, [...]

Apenny falling from the top of the Empire State Building will embed itself in the pavement. (False) Microwaving panties kills yeast infections. (Believed false but not conclusively proven) Bubbles in [...]

It's summertime -- the perfect time for Barry Orton to go surfing. 'It's called 'surfing the Internet,'' said Orton, a professor of telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as he [...]

There's a new frontier of opportunity for information professionals and its focus is on the networks. This prediction was made by many of the speakers during the 1992 ASIS Mid-Year […]

Marketing needs have prompted two widely divergent local entities from putting information on the Internet. WGR-AM and the Town of Tonawanda are making information, though vastly different types of information, [...]

We are all turning into machines. Hogwash! Not anymore than we all turned into telephones when they first became popular. Sure, technology has changed things, but not always for the [...]

Internet-based Globalink charges five cents per word to translate your text files into French, Spanish, or German and vice-versa. So, how good is it? It's said that in the 1960s, […]

Steven Gutz's NetSuite is a trio of OS/2 shareware Internet utilities that includes LA FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for file transfers; LA Times for accessing news groups; and LA Gopher […]

With all the hype the Internet is generating lately, last week's ComNet '94 trade show in Washington, D.C., offered the chance to get the real scoop (via a lunchtime keynote […]

No single event of the past year garnered more attention than the incipient construction of the information highway. During that same period no single industry product or service experienced more […]