Assembly Now Hosts 5,000 Discussions!BURLINGTON Burlington, town, Canada Burlington, town (1991 pop. 129,575), SE Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. First settled (1798) by Mohawk Loyalist Joseph Brandt, Burlington's economy was built on the shipment of wheat, lumber, and quarried rock by waterway. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 2, 1998--Assembly (http://assembly.nerdworld.com), the web discussion hosting service by Nerd World Media, is now the online discussion spot for over 5,000 Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Bulletin Boards. Users from all walks of life are using Assembly to communicate to friends, families and business associates. Assembly web discussions can be added to an existing website or stand alone as an online gathering place. Internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f from the world over are putting Assembly to work in fascinating ways. A step beyond the free web page, web discussions provide a great way for a group to communicate about several topics at once. Users can refer to messages over weeks or months, often facilitating more constructive, meaningful discussions. "We wanted to create an easy way to keep a group of friends in touch," said Dave Stein Stein , William Howard 1911-1980. American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease. , president of Nerd World Media, "Web discussions, while similar to chat, accommodate people who access the system at different times. A web discussion is ideal for a large group of people." Launched in February February: see month. 1996, Assembly is just a year and half old and already the home of over 5,000 web discussions. Internet users are invited to browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. the Assembly site and contribute to ongoing discussions as well as create their own web discussions. While Geocities, Tripod and Angelfire provide free web pages marketed as communities, interaction between users is often limited. The Assembly community facilitates interaction by making it fast and easy to respond to a posted opinion and carry on a discussion. Nerd World Media, based in Burlington, is a web community that stimulates real interaction between its users. Ideal for friends, families and businesses, Assembly web discussions can add interactivity to an existing web site or stand alone as an online gathering place. |
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