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July 21 to July 28
*CHAT About the Web Room in the People Connection is staffed from 8pm -11pm ET on a daily basis. Drop by to say hi and hang out with your friendly Cyberjockeys. (CJ = Cyberjockey = Internet Connection Staff).
Last week we posed the question, " What do you suppose is the question asked most often in CATW (Chat About the Web)," and promised to grant instant fame by publishing the names of the winners. And -- here they are!
Most often-asked question: What is the World Wide Web?
Runners-up submitted the second most-asked question, "How do I get on the World Wide Web?"
*BethEmc*
*Neil CT*
...and from CJ Pat L (Patrick Lien): Geez. There are so many that could qualify! Here's my vote:
"How do I access the WWW from AOL?"
Honorable Mentions:
"What is the Web?"
"Where do I type in that http thing?"
"Where's a cool web site?"
"What does it mean 'Document could not be retrieved'?"
"I downloaded the upgrade, but when I try to access the Web, it asks me to download again! Why?"
"How do I download pictures off the Web?"
"What do you talk about in this room?"
Senator Exon Award:
"Where do I find pix of da hot, nekkid women?"
Off-Topic Winners:
"Age/Sex check?"
"Any hot women in here wanna chat?"
Lifetime Achievement Award:
member UwillPaid1-6 (aka HellNo666, HellYes666, A CJ 49)
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Thanks to all who participated. We'll be putting your names in our hat for our periodic drawing for free time. Stay alert! We'll be asking other questions from time to time and YOU could be a winner!
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If you like contests, check this out in the Internet Connection (Keyword:Internet)
Seven Wonders of the Web is a fun way for you to win 10 free hours on America Online and learn new hangouts on the World Wide Web. We aren't sellin' anything. Heck, you don't even have to register.
It's a scavenger hunt that runs from 5 p.m. Friday to 4 p.m. the next Friday. If you've answered all seven questions correctly, we'll put your name in a big baseball cap with with other folks' names. At 5 p.m. every Friday, James, our Internet Connection intern, will pick SEVEN lucky winners AT RANDOM from the cap. If you've won, he'll send you e-mail and put your names in our Winners Gallery on the first screen.
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Tip of the Week for Windows fans who read Newsgroups
FileGrabber vastly simplifies the process of retrieving binary postings (programs, pictures, sounds, etc.) from newsgroups. Instead of having to manually download, assemble and decode such postings, FileGrabber automatically offers to do it all for you. FileGrabber can even display or play graphics and sound files. For details on how FileGrabber works, please read the section below titled "Using FileGrabber." Keyword:Online Docs
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The Internet Connection Sunday Event:
Urban Desires
Sunday, July 23, 1995 at 10pm ET in the Bowl
(Keyword:Center Stage)
"Urban Desires, an Interactive Magazine of Metropolitan Passions" started as a personal obsession in the living room of Kyle and Gaby Shannons' New York apartment, and has grown into a wildly popular Web publication, sending out 110,000 files ("hits") on an average day and that number is growing by at least 20% every month. Unique in scope and content, "Urban Desires" offers essays and articles on art, music, food, style, travel, performance and more, and presents them in ways unique to an online magazine, using beautiful, unusual graphics, fascinating works of art, animation, and soon, sound. "Urban Desires," with its depth of interactivity and design is on the cutting edge of how to present content on the Internet and intends to stay there.
Meet Editor in Chief Kyle Shannon, Managing Editor Gabrielle Shannon, and Publisher Chan Suh and find out what it takes to produce a successful online publication which gets over 110,000 "hits" a day. To take a look at "Urban Desires," set your browser to http://desires.com. Caution: this site has adult content.
Coming up in Center Stage:
"HTML Explorer"
"Cyber Law"
"Meet an AOL Webmaster"
"Virtual Cash"
and more
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That's it for now! See you next week!
If you have any comments or suggestions for this mailing, please send them to CJ Ellen.
