[1] In this case I am thinking specifically of a semi-conventionalized norm within the electronic discourses of Usenet News and on-line discussion groups on the Internet, where the use of capital letters has has come to represent "shouting" in texts that otherwise tend to shun capital letters even for proper names (this again has to do with the spontaneous nature of this kind of discourse that places high status on the `unedited' message). But of course there are also other more conventional discourses, such as those of public posters or the daily press with sensational headlines in letters 15 cm high, and advertising, where large letter-size in texts is often used to `shout' the name of the company, in order to attract the attention of possible consumers as `readers'.

[2] WAIS stands for Wide Area Information Systems.

[3] MOO means Multiuser dialog (or dimension) Object-Oriented.

[4] To reach Media-MOO, telnet to purple-crayon.media.mit.edu 8888 and log on as "guest".

[5] To reach Diversity University MOO, telnet to moo.du.org 8888 and log on as "guest". [See also the World Wide Web Gateway at http://moo.du.org:8888/]

[6] Today there are well over one hundred of these virtual environments around the world, all reachable via Internet. See for example the World Wide Web pages at TECFA [http://tecfa.unige.ch] and the MOO-lists at [http://www.ncsu.edu/unity/users/a/asdamick/www/moo.html]; [http://lucien/berkely.edu/moo.html]; [http://uu-gna.mit.edu:8001/uu-gna/schools/index.html] for more information on this.

[7] Se Coppock 1993[a], 1993[b], 1993[c], 1994[a]; Coppock & Greftegreff 1993; Coppock, Greftegreff & Schröder 1992 for discussion of some limitations of video-telephone and televideo conferencing systems.