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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1999
Page
7
The column discusses growing Internet commerce and current estimates place online revenues between ten billion and one hundred seventeen billion dollars by 2000. It urges local businesses to embrace online promotion, develop a commerce-enabled Web site, and market URLs across print and digital media to capture future online sales.
The Associated Press reports on odd and illegal online auctions including dirty underwear kidneys and a buyer’s claim to a virginity. eBay regulators and law enforcement warn such listings violate laws and risk real harm to donors and patients.
In St Louis a couple creates Forever Memorials, digital autobiographies stored at Bellerive Heritage Gardens. Visitors touch screens to hear, see, or feel the deceased through images, audio, and video. Prices range from 600 to 5000. The idea expands to Hollywood plots as executors plan a public archive.
UCLA professor Leonard Kleinrock and colleagues marked the 30th anniversary of the ARPANET test begun on September 2, 1969 in Kleinrock's lab at UCLA where two computers connected by a short cable sparked what would become the Internet. The celebration looked to the future, noting early sites UCLA Stanford UC Santa Barbara and Utah and the later rise of email file transfer and the World Wide Web transforming commerce and culture.
A Scripps Howard News Service Ohio University study shows Internet use grew sharply from 1995 to 1999 while reliance on local and network television news declined. Regular newspaper readers still outpace nonreaders among heavy Internet users, with education and youth driving online news habits.
Nationwide surveys show regular use (at least four times weekly) of local TV news 20 to 59 percent, network TV news 68 to 60 percent, daily newspaper 59 to 54 percent, radio news 50 to 87 percent, and Internet use rising, from samples of 1 006 in 1995 and 815 in 1999 conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University.
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