Herea s how The Post covered the a grand social experimenta of the Internet in 1988

... flame wars, and trade tips on everything from cooking to computer graphics. Raymond T. Kreisel, laboring in upstate New York on a tricky piece of computer graphics programming, typed a one-line question into his terminal -- "What is the fastest ...

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