carlitz@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Robert D. Carlitz) (04/12/90)
Recent postings to this newsgroup have discussed the connection of high schools to the Internet. People interested in this topic may be interested in the KIDSNET mailing list. This mailing list was established a little under a year ago. It is dedicated to the idea of creating an international network for the use of children and their teachers. The time is probably right for this activity. The necessary equipment is affordable and political barriers to this type of activty are dropping world-wide. On purely commercial grounds this represents a vast untapped market. One can enumerate many educational advantages (for both children and teachers) of a networked school environment. As access to information becomes a more and more central element in managing the world's activities, it makes sense to provide children with the tools essential for the job. Computer networks offer the potential to share information on a worldwide basis, to link different societies and disparate cultural groups within a given society. They place the able-bodied and the physically handicapped in a mutually supportive relationship. At least that's how it looks to me. If you would like to subscribe to the KIDSNET mailing list, send your subscription request to either joinkids@vms.cis.pitt.edu or kidsnet-request@vms.cis.pitt.edu BITNET fans may access vms.cis.pitt.edu as PITTVMS.BITNET. I look forward to hearing from those readers of comp.protocols.tcp-ip who would like to help develop this new venture. Bob Carlitz