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J. Exon: This is the blue book. This is a sample of what is available today free of charge: Click, click, click on the computer…

On the recordJune 9, 1995
This is the blue book. This is a sample of what is available today free of charge: Click, click, click on the computer, on the information superhighway. This will be available for any of my colleagues who are not familiar with what is going on on the Internet today, to have a firsthand look at the listings of materials that are available free of charge and pictures of what is being shown. To give an idea, let me read through some of the listings that appear on the bulletin boards. The computer is a wonderful device for arranging, storing, and making it relatively easy for anyone to call up information or pictures on any subject they want. That is part of the beauty of the Internet system. This is on some of these bulletin boards, and there is such a long list it would take a big binder to cover all of them, but let me read through what is in the form of pictures that have been taken on computer screens on the Internet. I have several pages of them here. I am going to just go through some of them and tell you any child who can read--and of course anyone else, too--could click onto this kind of an index that tells them what to do to punch in very easily to any of these types of things.
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J. Exon
Democratic · Nebraska

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Discussing the availability of information on the Internet during a Senate floor speech.

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