Nethead

This is, after all, a gathering of a typical fraternity of netheads, those Internet-obsessed students who every night fill the large computer labs sprinkled throughout campus.

To see why Al “My Way Is the Highway” Gore and 50,000 other Netheads from across the country have dialed into Monta Vista this year, point your web-browser to http:

“So we’re going to an Internet café …” said Rosina, as the two nurses stood in the queue for the 105 bus. “That’s right. We go and use the computers, and we can eat and drink while you’re doing it. And meet other Netheads, too, if we want to.” “Netheads?” “Freaks. People like us.”

In the early 1990s, Netheads liked to speculate that the reason the media only ran sensationalist scare stories about the online world was that newspaper and magazine editors, publishers, and writers knew their livelihoods were under threat.