The
Internet is the world’s largest computer network. It consists of
more than 100,000 inter-connected networks in more than 100 countries,
representing more than 5 million computers and 50 million users. The Internet
provides entertainment and information and is singularly the greatest technological
communications development since television or the telephone. It
has phenomenal potential to change our society for the better; however,
when there is an opportunity for making money there is also the potential
for great abuse. Fraud, governmental control, censorship and invasion of
privacy are only four of the areas of concern. BTW, the Wizard of Oz is
my second favorite movie!
| Vernacular
of the Internet: (1) Flame-
angry or insulting e-Mail, (2) Spam–Unsolicited,
self-serving advertising or commercial messages, (3)Worm–
acronym for “write once, read many”, refers to a storage device, usually
an optical disk, that can be written only once, but the recorded information
can be read any number of times, (4)Search
Engine- Internet program that helps user
find information, data, website, etc., (5)Thread-
message, (6)Website–location
on a server, or an address containing information, images and perhaps,
links to other sites containing related information, (7)Pfinger-
Unix routine to locate individual or individual’s e-mail address,
(8) Homepage–
Website of an individual. |
"I
don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto!"
The Information Super Yellow Brick Highway
Oh, launch into the Info Age,
Just weave some Threads; Websites engage;
Retrieve a File; then read, broad Gauge,
When Modems speed; download each Page;
Feed e-Mail Spam; Flames goad, enrage;
Computer Addicts assuage,
Great Internet; Life’s latest Rage!
Search Engines reach a Data Base;
Conserve Bandwidth so Worms can race,
Past Networks deep; span Cyberspace;
Yet Keyboards, fast, keep pfingered Pace,
Let Wizards/Browsers interface;
While Wicked Witches, Munchkins, chase,
To surf through Oz, with Style and Grace!
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© Howard B. Eskin 1998