Jack wrote:
>sites like that out there, too. In San Francisco I hear many humorous
>computer conversations going on at the dinner table next to me, or wherever.
>"I bought a book about Windows 95, but I still can't figure out how to make
>email in Printshop", etc.
Just about twenty minutes ago, I asked a Compuserve-subscriber friend whom
I bumped into at Starbucks, "So what web browser do you use with
Compuserve?" Answer: "Oh, I don't know, any one you want to use, I guess.
They provide you with a choice of eight or nine. Like WebCrawler. Or
Excite." I kept prodding and he kept listing search engines, 'til finally I
was able to explain my question well enough for him to answer, "Internet
Explorer."
Since I'm an avid reader, my newest pet peeve is novelists who radiate,
"Gee golly, I just got on AOL and it's real kewl. Now I'm an Internet
expert so I'm going to hang the plot of my next novel on it." It's gotten
so bad that I now thumb through paperbacks to look for mention of AOL or
the Internet before buying them. Just the other day I got lazy and didn't
do that before buying a paperback by one of my favorite novelists, Patricia
Cornwell, who writes murder mysteries whose lead character Dr. Kay
Scarpetta is a medical examiner in Virginia. I soon regretted my mistake,
as Dr. Scarpetta began receiving e-mail via AOL from the murderer in this
story, complete with attached "high resolution" photos of the latest
victim. Supposedly the email was sent from AOL via the World Wide Web.
"Maybe he left a trail in the computer.... on the Web." Then the good
doctor's niece, a FBI computer whiz kid, spent the rest of the novel
unsuccessfully trying to trace the sender "through AOL and Unix" when, of
course, someone could have driven a court order out to Vienna, VA and
gotten all the info they needed on the user from AOL in probably less than
an hour (just ask that poor Timothy McVeigh guy how hard it is for the
government to get user info from AOL). I just hope Ms. Cornwell researches
her forensic science better than she researched the Internet.
Suz
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