Here in Hanover, Dartmouth's 4,000 students are virtually addicted to something of which you may have never heard: BlitzMail. BlitzMail is the electronic mail system universally used by the students, faculty and employees of the College.
While the various sites on the World Wide Web from Excite to Yahoo are helpful, all have benefits, drawbacks
The recent explosive growth of the Internet has brought with it the growth of an entirely Internet-based culture.
Fans addicted to shows such as "Melrose Place," "Party of Five" and television's daytime soap opera fare now have another medium to give them their fix: the Internet. A new home page on the World Wide Web called "The East Village," located at: http://www.theeastvillage.com, is one of a growing handful of sites that are aiming to turn the World Wide Web into the next big thing in entertainment. The site, which goes "live" on March 15, will include new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. A "raw preview" of the first episode, now currently available, consists of a chain of Web pages that incorporate a "diary entry" from one of the main characters, as well as accompanying photographs in a style intended to appeal to a mass audience, like television. "The East Village," published by startup company Marinex Multimedia, which makes no bones about the site being a "soap opera," focuses on a group of friends living in the East Village of Manhattan. The first episode introduces the protagonist Eve to Web-surfers.