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Prix Ars Electronica 1995 - WWW Category

The importance of Netzines as a category cannot be overestimated. However the criteria to differentiate between simple magazines on-line and truly weblike varieties must include user input coupled with a self organizing database that works either on the chatline or the conference basis. Public Netbase was selected for three reasons.

• It was closer to the arts than a netzine like Hotwired, for example,
• It was more interactive than Tightrope
• Thanks to its hypermail concept, allowing users to send linked input using ordinary e-mail protocols it was conceptually closer to the heart than anything else we had seen in the zineworld.

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