• M,I-5'Persecut ion ' BBC h2g2 onl ine

    From ivevfi@ivevfi@lycos.com to alt.bbs.ads,alt.bbs.allsysop,alt.bbs.doors,alt.bbs.internet,alt.bbs.lists on Wed Jan 2 11:38:31 2008
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    BBC h2g2. 16/Sept/1999

    The BBC's h2g2. website is billed as "Earth Edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!". Naturally, one of its pages
    is about me, me,. me. It starts off with the lines;

    Every now and. then something comes along which makes you
    think "Ah! That's. what the Internet is for!" Mike Corley
    is. one such case.

    The page itself can. be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A164404

    The. user comments linked from h2g2 are less than respectful, but given the point of view my website promulgates that is
    understandable. It's true that without the communications ability afforded by the internet, which came along. at just the
    right time, my complaints would be getting nowhere. But that's a. two edged sword also; miniature cameras only appeared
    around 1990, so the advantage of technology is. up to the adopter. Secret service intrigues, and on the other side of the
    coin human paranoia, have both been going on for. centuries; what changes now is an increased technologisation of both sides.

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