[WEB4LIB] Re: Scratch & Sniff Web sites

[Dan Robinson Indexing Services]

Nah, it'll be the dept store sites... it's not enought that you get 
perfume samples in the bills, now you'll get them as you log onto the 
sites. ....

dan

On 15 Oct 99 at 12:26, Brian Smith wrote:

> At 07:28 AM 10/15/99 -0700, Roy Tennant wrote:
> >Oh great. Just when you thought it was safe to go out with your browser,
> >now this happens. It seems a company in California (where else?) is
> >working on a method to transmit smells over the Internet. The idea is that
> >you would have a device attached to your computer with a set of scented
> >oils, and the instructions to generate the smell from this portable
> >perfume factory would come streaming over the net while you were, say,
> >visiting the web site of your local sewage treatment plant. Possibilities
> >abound. For more (as if you haven't had enough), see the ZDNet article at:
> >
> >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2354314,00.html
> 
> This is also the cover story in the November issue of _Wired_.
> 
> I'd bet a large sum of money that porn sites will be among the first to
> incorporate this technology into their content.
> 
> Brian Smith
> Assistant Head of Adult Services
> Villa Park (IL) Public Library
> http://www.villapark.lib.il.us/
> bsmith at linc.lib.il.us
> .. But writing only on my own behalf
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> "If you didn't want them to think, you shouldn't have 
> given them library cards." -- _Getting Straight_ (1970)
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