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Communications Major
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Shifts and nuances in the way we communicate online.
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There's much online chatter this week about Monica Lewinsky, who 16 years ago was identified as "that woman" who gave President Bill Clinton a blow job. (There, we've sad it.) Ms. Lewinsky, a former White House intern is now 40 years old, and she's written a piece for Vanity Fair (which will hit the interwebs next week). In said piece, Lewinsky identifies herself as perhaps the first victim of Internet (or cyber-) bullying. And she may be right. The scandal, which got pretty heavy nonstop circulation back in the Web 1.0 day, is ripe for reexamination in how it would play out in our current social media-frenzied Web 2.0 world. Here's a look at the stories that were making headlines in 1998. 
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"It’s hard for recent generations to comprehend that there was a time before the Internet. But, I remember it. And, I remember when I first began using it. I remember the invention of HTML for use on the World Wide Web. Everything had capital letters back then. Yes. I am that old. Apparently, in 1995, [...]"
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December 1 marks World AIDS Day. And while millenials have certainly heard of the illness and the its one-time description as the "plague", their first-hand experience with how the U.S. government and the majority of our population reacted is limited, at best. On Monday, a sizable smattering of Twitter users reacted with shock over a reposted transcript of a 1982 Reagan administration press conference at which Press Secretary Larry Speakes made a series of lighthearted jokes about AIDS. Yep, that was how AIDS was viewed in 1982, and by our government for at least the next 6 years.
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