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Article: Thelovething.com.(the written world is far from dead, as evidenced in electronic lesbian chat rooms)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- September 28, 1999
- Author:
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Technophobes say that computers will doom the printed word. Books will become obsolete. The art of good writing will be lost. As a result, deep thinking and feeling will go the way of the attention span. Worst of all, the love letter will cease to exist, and the history of private life will survive only in the creative wasteland of the misspelled memo.
But this hasn't happened yet. On the contrary, the Internet is infecting us with language and passionate intensity. Though much of what people express in E-mails and in chat rooms never gets preserved on paper, a lot of literature is being spun in cyberspace. Loads of porn is on view too, but that has been true in ...