EDITORIAL TALKING 'BOUT A REVOLUTION.EVER since Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press and gave birth to mass media, the written word has belonged to a privileged few. The public has had to live with its priorities, tastes and agendas. No longer. The 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 has laid the path for citizen journalism News and commentary from the public at large. Using wiki sites and blogs, anyone can contribute information about a current event. Also known as "collaborative citizen journalism" (CCJ), "grassroots media" and "personal publishing," the concept behind citizen journalism is that many on a global scale, and now the moment has arrived locally in a whole new way via the Daily News' valleynews.com. Want to read about your kid's team? Want to make sure your letter to the editor sees the light of day? Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. something to do this weekend that's close by? Mad about the way City Hall works? See valleynews.com. Or better yet, post your own stories, pictures and, eventually, videos and music. No need to keep reading someone else's news. Read -- or make -- your own. And no need to surf through all of cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. to find what you're looking for. All the communities we serve are front and center at valleynews.com. Read. Upload See download. upload - /uhp'lohd/ To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral "client" system to a larger or central "host" one. Opposite: download. . See the weekly print editions in the Daily News, featuring the best of the online material. The revolution will be on your computer. |
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