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Summary: Definitely not a time waster
Review: I enjoyed going back to 1994 and reading about the advent of some of our now routine virtual lives. Mr. Moore has a delightful way of telling a story, whether about Usenet (heavy in this book) or electronic mail, or the new thing called the World Wide Web. I think this is an excellent quick trip through "where we've been" and I highly recommend it to anyone who takes the internet seriously or as a career. I wrote to Mr. Moore shortly after I read the book to see if he was planning a follow-up tome. He said he was not, but if he does, I'll be in line to buy it shortly after publication. History with a sense of humor.
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Summary: Definitely not a time waster
Review: I enjoyed going back to 1994 and reading about the advent of some of our now routine virtual lives. Mr. Moore has a delightful way of telling a story, whether about Usenet (heavy in this book) or electronic mail, or the new thing called the World Wide Web. I think this is an excellent quick trip through "where we've been" and I highly recommend it to anyone who takes the internet seriously or as a career. I wrote to Mr. Moore shortly after I read the book to see if he was planning a follow-up tome. He said he was not, but if he does, I'll be in line to buy it shortly after publication. History with a sense of humor.
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Summary: Outdated and fairly useless
Review: If you're on amazon.com, odds are you don't need this book. It's outdated, and I can't imagine it was very useful even when it was current. Moore seems to utterly miss the point of most of the internet, and the fact that his "research" is concentrated in the insular world of USENET only makes his view narrower. The only entertaining parts of the book are 1) the cover, and 2) his utter incomprehension of cybersex and "how to do it". But neither of those are worth purchasing the book for. Go for "Cyberville" or "My Tiny Life" instead.
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Summary: Intelligent look at Internet Community
Review: The author captured an intelligent snapshot of internet culture and community as it began to take hold in the mid to late 1990s. A fun, easy read.
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