Explosive growth in access to the Internet has created an unprecedented opportunity for the general public to acquire explicit erotic texts, images, services, and merchandise, but psychological scientists have not conceptualized antecedents or consequences of contact with Internet sexuality or conducted a significant amount of empirical research on these issues. The current analysis uses Intern...

NNTP, the Network News Transfer Protocol, has been labelled the most widely implemented elective protocol in the Internet. The growth of the Internet has meant more sites exchanging NNTP data. While the explosive growth in Usenet traffic places demands on all sites, the goal of fast network access puts particular demands on NNTP hosts. InterNetNews is an implementation of the Usenet transport l...

This paper describes a telepresence system for remote site exploration allowing both real-time unrestricted navigation and live information visualization. The proposed strategy is based on the use two distinct and complementary models: a structural model and an appearance model. These two models are combined together in order to obtain a complete 3D representation.

Rising e-commerce volumes the world over provide opportunities to global marketers to expand their markets using the Internet. While Internet casinos have had their share of failures, the industry still rakes in three times the revenues as web pornography. Converging web technology allows for Internet gaming operators to expand their markets all over the world. However, appealing to consumers i...

For this issue's Commentary column, Peter L. Tenore, MD, discusses risk for infection with HIV or acquisition of sexually transmitted diseases associated with the use of the Internet to find sexual partners and presents results of an informal survey to determine whether Internet sites used to find sexual partners provide warnings about sexually transmitted diseases and HIV. He also calls for th...