References

ONLINE REFERENCES :

CHAPTER I - OLD FOLKS

60+ Chat Room http://www.sfwest.com/60Plus.html

Chip Harding http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/5005/

NUA Statistics http://www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/

North Korea bans Internet http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200104/200104220145.html

Pew Internet Project http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0621/p25s02-stin.html

Media Audit Exite Inc http://www.exn.ca/Stories/1997/09/25/54.asp

Baruch Collete-Harris Poll http://www.alamopc.org/PCAlamode/columns/ives2/nerd398.html

Activemedia http://www.activmediaresearch.com/real_number_1998.html

Futuremedia http://www.lbs.lon.ac.uk/marketing/Future/fmmonthlynews/newsletter_archive/11Sept97.pdf

Greenrfield Online http://signup.greenfieldonline.com/

Pew Internet & American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/

2002 MediaMetrix http://www.jmm.com/xp/jmm/press/2002/pr_052202.xml

Real.com http://www.real.com/

Windowsmedia.com http://windowsmedia.com/

Btopenworld http://www.bt.com/openworld/

BBC Online Network http://www.bbc.co.uk/

NetValue http://www.netvalue.com/

Market Intelligence Strategy Centre http://www.marketintelligence.com.au/

CHAPTER II - THE WORLD WIDE WEB

As We May Think Vannevar Bush http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm

Memex http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0051.html

RAND Corporation - see what they are doing now: http://www.hereinreality.com/news/rand.html

Paul Baran http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/baran.html

The National Physical Laboratory in Great Britain http://www.npl.co.uk/

ARPANET http://www.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa.html

Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/

World Wide Web http://www.w3.org/

CERN http://user.web.cern.ch/user/cern.html

Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT http://www.lcs.mit.edu/SuperComputing Applications http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dhyatt/superap/web/jding/

Marc Andreesen http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/ma1.html

Eric Bina http://agham.asti.dost.gov.ph/1998/7th/inteli/lucky/bina.html

Benchmark Group http://www.europemedia.net/showfactfile.asp?FactFileID=93&FactID=C14

BBC Online Network http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2117527.stm

Simon Wiesenthal Center http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2117527.stm

Pristine Day Trader Wall Street online http://www.pristine.com/

Age concern in Britain http://www.epolitix.com/data/companies/images/Companies/Age-Concern/160802.htm

CHAPTER III - EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY

National Capital Freenet http://www.ncf.ca/

Flora Community Web http://weblog.flora.org/

Ask the Doctors http://www.flora.org/ask-doctor/

New Canadian Books http://www.flora.org/books/

Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~gisle/overload/mcluhan/um.html

ETForecasts market research http://www.etforecasts.com/

Peter Wegner http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/pw/home.html

NCF Seniors SIG http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:12345/freeport/sigs/life/seniors/menu

"Freenet for the Fun of It" http://www.flora.org/oldfolks/mybooks.html

Expanded edition - Stoddart http://home.achilles.net/~pierre/books.html

Real Time On Line reporting system http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ip/freenet/conferences/com-net94/reports/2nd_annual.txt

Realtime Online - Professional Conference Reporting Team http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/ip/freenet/conferences/com-net94/reports/founding_meeting.txt

Harold Wolff http://journalism.unl.edu/an/summer01/history.html

Blogging http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/mustread.html?pg=2

Fred Thompson, futurist http://www.cyberus.com/~fgthom/home page.html

Sigma 3, 1997 Statistics on the Net http://www.flora.org/oldfolks/sigma.html

National Press Club of Canada http://www.pressclub.on.ca/

Creative Retirement Web (SCIP) http://www.seniorscan.ca/

Ask Great Granny http://www.seniorscan.ca/granny/granny.html

CHAPTER IV - SENIORS ONLINE

HTML the Basic Book http://www.flora.org/books/extra.html#computer

McGill Center Studies on Aging http://www.aging.mcgill.ca/projects.htm http://www.aging.mcgill.ca/connections.htm

St Patrick's Home http://www.stpats.ca/Admission.html

Seniors Canada On-line Survey www.seniors.gc.ca/scolimages/ Summary_of_Findings_fnl.pdf

What we glean http://www.flora.org/oldfolks/receive.html

CHAPTER V - FOREVER

The Geezer Brigade http://www.shpm.com/articles/internet/geezer.html

Library of Alexandria http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/Alexandria/History/legacy.html

The Heritage Canada Foundation http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/main.html

Canadian Heritage http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/index_e.cfm

National Archives of Canada http://www.archives.ca/08/08_e.html

Early Canadians Online http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/9/2/p2-9911-12-e.html

Canadian Conservation Institute http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/

Internet Archive http://webdev.archive.org/index.php

The WayBack Machine http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/01/18/brewster.html

Stewart Brand http://www.well.com/user/sbb/

Donald Heath http://www.connect world.com/past_issues/asia/1999/first_quarter/d_heath_INTERNET_SOCIETY_1999.asp

Public Broadcasting transcript http://www.pbs.org/uti/usingtranscript.html Interviews:

INTERVIEWS:

I have interviewed hundreds of people for this thesis, including the following, some in person but mostly by e-mail.

Carol MacIvor, Canadian Conservation Institute Information Managing Editor about CCI

Cara Prest , Canadian Heritage Information Network about (CHIN)

Ian Allen, professor at Algonquin College

Rony Aoun, srtudent at Carleton University, about production of HTML.

Pierre Bourque, computer journalist, about the value of the internet for seniors.

Tom Kyle, 71 year old retired industrialist, re setting up Web sites.

Fred Thompson, futurist, regarding "blogs".

Richard Denesiuk of Creative Retirement Manitoba regarding intergenerational advice.

Jim Olson in Eau Claire, Minnesota about Elder Hostels

Douglas Rushkoff of the mediasquatters about cyberspace being youth-specific.

Shirley Barwise Calgary Freenet Senior about being called "old"

John Dapp in Montoursville, PA, about humour on the Internet

Bill Foad in Toronto who is a paraplegic, always on the net with friends.

Ilona Vogel , 76, in Australia who e-mails her family all around the world.

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