If you read a newspaper you may come across the hue and cry over the encroachment from the sky. The sattellite has definitely given a new thrust for the electronic media and along with this came MTV or STAR TV, influencing the new generation and detribalizing our society. We can not ignore the fact that english as a language had play a great role for the development of science and technology. The legacy of the British raj left on the most part of the world is the english language in education system. When you go out of your country, you look like an idiot even if you are a PhD in Nepali. There are about five billion earthlings dwell around the globe. Many of them, may be 90% are non-english. The lack of knowledge of english language deprive them from accessing the information from computers or the information super highway. Information in the digital age is the means to make wealth (money and knowledge). When the world is zooming digitally towards the next millennium the lack of access to information is affecting the vast majority of the people and is a cultural implication of the softwares and the Internet which are basically english language based.These days we seems to be getting cultural shocks from every sector including information technology.

Todays advancement in the field of science and technology have definitely changing the whole concept of the society. In most of the developing countries the computers are concerned with a small group of the people, resulting in the division of the society of digital have and havenots or rather information have and havenots. Even if you look into the Internet which is changing the society quite fast, english is the language which dominates the Net. Without the knowledge of english no one can access the Net. What is the advantage of infotech revolution to that part of the world which is poor as well as english illitrate. It’s like kalo ascher bhainsi barabar. Fortunately or unfortunately 80% of the softwares in the world are made in the USA and are in english. This fact presupposes a computer user to have a knowledge of english language. In the abscence of greater localization of softwares tiny percentage of people is controlling the vast majority of the population. How could a small group of people who are computer literate and cosmopolitan out look can guide the remaining part of the society the way they see, think and behave.

Whether localization of softwares is possible or not due to what ever reasons, few of the fields like education should have local flavors and should be available in local languages. There are already some countries vying for the localization of softwares for their english illetrate people.Development of information technology has shifted the power from atoms to bits and bits being the new order of the world, computer literate is running the society. Whether we want or not information superhighway is going to affect our life as computer is already doing. We should always open our arms to the new technology without biased view but with a cautious approach and should be relevant to our context.There are many software houses in Nepal making softwares in Nepali. But this business is small in comparision with their production in english based softwares.

E-mail in Nepali! In the same context how many of us use Nepali font for E-mail? May be none. When there are so many Nepali fonts available why not mail in Nepali? Type in a Nepali font and convert it to TEXT format and send across but the other computer should also have the same/compatible font. Allen Tuladhar, CEO of USNet, a leading software house when approached for his views, came forward with a noble idea of putting his Nepali font "SIDDHI" (refer box ) on the Internet as a shareware i.e. one can down load for free. Then onwards you can tell your peers out side Nepal to download so that he/she may write in Nepali. With this, moms whose offsprings are out side Nepal will be the most happiest moms.

Sending e-mail is similar to sending mail by postal service. All the features of paper mail which the age old post office delivers is found on e-mail except adding postage. For paper mail you write a letter and put it inside an envelope with an address and stamps and drop it off for delivery. With e-mail you run the e-mail program, give the address, compose the message and give the command to send. For both systems you don’t have to worry about how the mail get through to reach the destination. E-mail is a cost effective, non-interactive communication of data, text, image, or voice messages and you can even send fax and telex messages from your PC to any where in the world. Organizations can look forward for faster, more efficient information access, transmission and management with e-mail.

Getting e-mail connection. You need a PC -386, 4MB RAM and above, a modem ( external /internal), and a telephone line. Then you got to enlist with e-mail service provider for e-mail address, which is the cyberspace equivalent of a postal address and the required software is installed in your PC and you are allocated a mail box with a password on the server of the service provider. Messaging takes place through these boxes.

What’s my address?Anyone who has an e-mail access, has e-mail address like postal address. Lets see what e-mail address look like and what it means. It consist of two parts and seperated by an @ (the at sign), the first part is the mailbox usually users name( you can put your name in this part) and second part is the domain, usually the name of the Internet service provider or name of the computer system that handles the e-mail for the user.. For example rajib@hotmail.com, rajib is the user, hotmail is the e-mail service provider and .com stands for commercial organizations i.e. hotmail is a commercial organization. Educational institutions use .edu, government organizations use .gov, non government organizatios use .org. Countries other than US ends domain with their country code e.g. np in domain stands for Nepal. The portions making up the domain is separated by dots. If you read an e-mail address e.g. rajib@hotmail.com, you would say rajib at hotmail dot com ( Rajib is prounced as a word, but hotmail and com are prounced as individual letters.).

Due to the increasing e-mail users, e-mail service provider are coming up with different style of user names, like rajib.subba@hotmail.com, they even use only initials or some madeup names or even some coded numbers. Here in Nepal e-mail addresses look like bh@wlink.com.np or surajkc@mos.com.np or prem@.ccsl.com.np. The user names bh or surajkc or prem is the name of the person who owns the address. wlink stands for Worldlinks, mos stands for Mercantile Office System and ccsl stands for ComputerLand Communication System, all are Internet service providers in Nepal. Some prefer to have their own folder so that all the mails of the enlisted users at their site gets stored in that folder e.g. sita@a1momo.hotmail.com here a1momo is the name of the organization who owns a folder as a1momo.

From eleena@hotmail.com.np Fri Jun 14 1997 15:05:59

Reply-To : eleena@hotmail.com.np

Date : Fri, 14 Jun 1997 17:35:05

From : eleena@hotmail.com.np(Rekha Poon)

To : rasu@hotmail.com.np

Subject : My jacket.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Hi Rajoo

> Last letter.

:-) Mom says you can't wear my jacket if you aren't going to wear my pant.

BTY Do write.

Yours Eleena

------------------------------------------------------

From the PC of Eleena.

My-Dream Center, Birgunj

Phone no: 123456

E-mail : eleena@hotmail.com.np

Headers.Six lines above the double dash(= =) line is the header. Lets look at some of the common headers ( in italics ).

Reply-To:The address to reply.

Date : When the e-mail was sent.

From : The e-mail address of the sender.

To : The e-mail address of the recipient.

Subject : The subject of the e-mail.

The body. The double dash (= =) line indicates that all the headers are done. Below it is the real message.Line starting with > is reminder.

Netiquette or E-mail etiquette :

@ Chose the subject heading carefully, make it to the point yet fully understandable.

@ Don’t write in upper case as far as possible barring some cases where you may have to emphasize. Some take capital letters offending or shouting through the mail.

@KISS -keep it simple and short. No cryptic messages.

@ Try to include the original message which is pertinent to your reply within the message body. Net trend is to use greater than sign (>) at the starting of every reminder line.

@ Always use signature.

@ Be careful when using humor. Yours may not match the receipent’s.

@Flame off! If you don’t want to look like a jerk, don’t flame. Excessive outrage in e-mail is called flaming. You may sometimes get an offensive e-mail or you think it’s offensive when the sender may have intended something else. So don’t answer the mail if you are in doubt.

Emoticon Emoticon/Message

:-) Humour/Happy, :) Smile, :( Frown, :/) Not funny, '-) Wink, ;-) Wink 2, :-"      Pursing lips, :-\ Undecided,

:-O Surprised, :-* Oops!(covering mouth with hand), :-T Tight-lipped, :-D Said with a smile, :-# Censored, :* Kiss

:-( Unhappy,  :-@ Screaming, :-| Disgusted/Indifferent, :/ Cry, :D Laugh, %-)     Confuse, :-o " Oh. noooo!",

|-( Late night messages, (:-( Very sad, @>-->-- A rose

-Rajib Subba
Publication date 13 August 1997. Cyber Post, The Kathmandu Post

Yesterday: Following the footsteps of Darwin, the evolution of human being began in the sea, grew legs, walked on land, gained knowledge, drove a car, built wings, and pursues the stars and beyond. The same can be said of the Internet but much faster.The ancestor of the Internet was the ARPANET, a project under ARPA acronym for Advance Research Project Agency established in late sixties by US Department of Defense and US Military, basically for military research.

In the late eighties US National Science Foundation (NSF) established NSFNET a network of five super-computer for research use for academics. Slowly the connection got increased and around 1982 the term Internet first appeared. ARPANET cease to exist since 1990 due to variety of reasons, some technical some political. Since early nineties all other privately developed networks were allowed to conduct businesses on the Internet. Since then the number of links grew to form extensive worldwide network. Now there are more than 4 million computers connected to the Internet, allowing 40 million users to exchange information.

No one owns the Internet: In 1992 ISOC(Internet Society) was formed for the further development of the Net. Within ISOC many workgroups are active but prominent are IAB(The Internet Architecture Board) for standardized of technology, IETF(The Internet Engineering Task Force) which maintains and develops the Internet protocol and IRTF( The Internet Research Task Force) looks long term research. InterNIC (Network Information Center) was established in 1993 to register domain names, directory and database services and information about Internet services. It should be noted here that no one owns the Internet but everyone owns a chunk of it whoever gets a connection you, me and them.

Basically Internet can be divided into four groups of functions that can be done on the Internet. The first one is the electronic mail or e-mail. Now e-mail is not only confined to the PC’s of elites but spreading it’s wings to a wi-der degree. (The major article of the last issue of the Cyber Post written by this scribe was on email; Electronic mail: paperless and postage free.).

The second use is Internet as a HUGE source of information or database. Since from the inception of the Internet it has been developed as a place of information about everything and anything one can imagine. The database may include business to politics, sex to religion, academic to poverty etc etc. The information is getting wider and wider now they feel the Internet may crash due to overload of information.

The third function of the Internet is to act as a forum of sophisticated or mundane ideas for discussion. More than 20,000 groups are available for different topics.

The fourth use of the Internet is for Chat or talk to anyone who happens to be on the channel, by typing words into the computer. The typed messages immediately appears on the screen of those who are tuned in.

How it works. Even in a small organization there is a protocol to define who is what for job assignments. In similar fashion every network and every computer on a network works according to some set of rules called protocols. There are many protocols but TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol, SLIP/PPP (Serial Line Internet Protocol/Point-to-Point Protocol) and http are prominent protocols used on the Internet.

Location in cyberspace. Every networks and every computers which are connected to the Internet are assigned an address called IP (Internet Protocol) address. IP address is a combination of numbers such as 123.45.67.809. It’s like a phone number uniquely describes your connection to the telephone network. These numbers are made up of a sequence of four numbers called octet separated by periods. Starting from the left the numbers in the address identify a network and the numbers on the right identify a specific host or computer system, e.g. 123.45.67 is the network portion and 879 is the host portion. Computer has no difficulty in understanding the numbers(IP address), it may be difficult for the users to remember the jumble of the numbers, so Internet sites also have names in alphabets like hostname.organization.com.np which is called domain name. The name of the computer system or host is on the left and more information is available as one moves towards right, e.g. the organization "organization" is a commercial(com) organization and it is in Nepal (np) with host computer name "hostcomputer". This is known as fully qualified domain name.

Human like to use names which means something to them or which is easy to remember or which may have something to do with the language they speak. Similarly the domain names has some meaning which is being standardized as Domain Name System(DNS). In the domain name the type of organization with which the user is connected is represented like com for commercial, gov for government, edu for educational, mil for military, org for non-government and net for network. Countries other than US are represented by their country code like np for Nepal. When a user "types" the domain name, it gets automatically converted to IP address.

Packets or envelopes. TCP is responsible to break the messages or information into packets and each packet is around 1500 bytes or characters. Comparing with postal system, each 1500 bytes(your letter) are put inside a packet(envelope) with the IP address of the sender as well as recipients (like a postal letter with address printed envelopes). Then these packets are routed through different networks till it reaches to it’s destination as defined by the IP address. At the site of the recipient these packets are converted to the original form.

Getting connectivity.You need to have a PC 386 or up with 8 MB RAM, modem with speed of 14400 or 28800 bps, a telephone line and required softwares. Then open an account with the Internet service provider (ISP). These accounts depend on the protocols being used.

Shell account: The word shell is a UNIX term for a special kind of program. You need modem, telephone line, terminal emulation software and an account with ISP. Your PC dials up host computer of the ISP. Your computer runs terminal emulation program and asks host computer which uses TCP/IP to go out onto the Internet to do whatever you want to do. Then you have to download from your host rather than from the Internet. Here your computer is not directly connected to the Internet but host computer is. This account is primarily limited to text based services.

TCP/IP account: SLIP/PPP are used with a modem over telephone line to connect two computers speaking TCP/IP to each other. In this mode your computer is directly connected to the Internet where host computer of your ISP acts as a data conduit between your PC and the internet. With this account you can use all the flavors of the Internet like full color graphics. In order to connect two computers both using TCP/IP with modem must be running additional protocol i.e. SLIP/PPP at both the computer. Chose PPP rather than SLIP as it works efficiently and new.

Lisead lines: A wire is drawn from your site to host computer of your ISP for faster access of the Internet. Big organizations usually go for this type of account with dedicated line and pretty expensive. The idea is to avoid the trouble-some telephone exchange and 24 hour unlimited Internet access at faster rate.

" One major theme is to make computers more like humans. This is the original dream behind classical intelligence. Another theme is to make people more like computers. This is how technology is designed today. The result is an ever-increasing difficulty in learning the technology and an ever-increasing error rate."-Charles Babcock, writer.

Whenever we pick up the phone after it rings we say "hello"! Why do we have to say hello when we can also greet in our own way like namaste? This is called shifting to the cultures of the technology inventors.

Devanagiri script has 51 letters with no capitals. A compound letter is formed with the combination of two letters. Arabic is written from left to right, is always cursive, letters take up to four forms depending upon the context.Chinese or Japanese and other ideographic languages have hunderds of thousands of characters.

Over 90% of the world's population don't speak English and country other than the Anglo-Saxon block doesn't differentiate between the letters of Roman scripts which is deeply embedded into the softwares. Basically more than 80% of the softwares are made in the US and use Roman scripts and English language. Due to this fact the end-user is forced to follow what the computer says or rather what the maker of the software thinks in other words the user will be culturally shifting to the originator's.

Professor Patrick Hall, Computer Science, the Open University, UK is here in Nepal to do research in this regard. Professor who is in Nepal for just a month is to meet many linguistics, IT professionals, software developers, CAN, educationist, industry wallas. When asked about the reasons of choosing Nepal, Prof. said it is a country with diverse cultures and languages. His research is focused on how we see softwares and computing when we have different culture and language than that of software makers.

Born in Zimbabwe in 1940 he spent the first 21 years of his life in Southern Africa before going to England. He studied electronics and mathematics, and then moved into a career in computing, working in various areas from relational databases to software engineering and quality assurance. In the late 1970s he was in Saudi Arabia for two years working on an information system and became involved with the shortcomings of its Arabic interface. This was his first exposure to software localisation which he subsequently continued in participating in a committee in the UK concerned with character code standards and later ran a European Union funded research project Glossasoft concerned with software localisation. Glossasoft used recent developments in computational linguistics and software architectures,and its results were published in a book edited by him and Ray Hudson, titled ‘Software without Frontiers’ and published by Wiley.

It is seen that technology isnot culturally neutral for example the computer systems depend on the script and language of the originator's. Most computer software is produced with it's interfaces in English, and assumptions about English are embedded deeply in the software as because they are mostly made in the US.

As the software market is growing and getting more competitive, the need of new markets for software has prompted the suppliers of software to convert their software to work in local language, culture and convetions related to their markets. The result was that the combination of linguistics and software componentry yields more flexible approach to internationalisation and makes localisation with a local product at lower cost and timescale.

In Arabic each letter can take up to four forms with just twist of the pen at the start or in the middle or at the end or isolated and standing on it's own. Then the computer have to have the capability with large range of scripts. Xerox was one of the first to make 16 bit character code to give the needed versatility and now Apple provides more flexibility. To accomodate many scripts, international standards have been formed. Without deep understanding of the language and culture, the design of character codes leave one back to the square that's why it has been left to the regional bodies likeASMO 449 for Arabic, GIST standard for Devanagari and so on. Today Unicode standard, ISO 10646, is the universally accepted standard.

Differences between Arabic and Nepali scripts and language. Putting lights in this regard the main element that Arabic and Nepali have in common is they are not based on the Roman script, and thus computers have not traditionally been built to work with these. Both are alphabetic scripts (as opposed to the ideographic scripts of Chinese and similar), both are phonetic, and both require good print quality to show the subtleties of the script, and in particular the short vowels that are written as diacritics.

Arabic has had the support of powerful economies based on oil revenue and thus there have been strong market forces that has led Arabic system to have reached a sophisticated stage of development. Apart of that Arabic is written from right to left (and sometimes with letters stacked as if written from top to bottom) which has given some print technologies difficulties, and the diacritic short vowels are often omitted so that to be able to pronounce a written word you need to fill these in and know what the word is from the context. Arabic letters had a different form depending where in the word they appear, and some letters can combine to form composites.

The Nepali (Devanagari) conjuncts seem to be rather similar in behaviour, but must be found out more about this. If this is the case, then it could suggests ways that Nepali keyboards could be constructed to be more effective in use. In traditional Arabic keyboards, there had to be a key for each form of each letter, and each composite, and a typist had to use a shift key (like that used for capital letters on a Roman keyboard) and that slowed them down. If you simply have a key per letter, and leave the intelligence of the computer to decide which form to use, or which composite, when it prints the text, this frees the typist to be able to key in text at a considerably faster rate with greater accuracy.

You may have noticed that in a typewriter with Devanagari letters you have to use shift key frequently despite the absence of capital letters. It's due to 51 letters of the script. Similarly just imagine how a Arabic keyboard looks like where all four forms of the 28 letters had to find a place? Then what about Chinese or any other ideogrammatic languages? According to Professor Hall the popular approach to this problem is phonological transliterations in which the user types in the pin-yin transliteration, and the computer responds with the possible Chinese character to chose from. Another alternative proposed is to use a stroke analysis of characters.

According to him the current approach is to use a blend of methods using support from the operating and window systems which basically provide support for localisation. And suggested that the suppliers of these systems can supply the basic software platform already localised, and what the intending localisers of applications must do is to organise their applications so that the locale dependent parts are separated out i.e.they are internationalised and then use the facilities of the operating system to either select the local using approriate calls to the operating system, or through having the messages and other text translated from the original language into the language of the locale.

He further elaborated that software architecture are important. In his opinion the culturally and linguistically sensitive parts should be separated from the core of the application to form components and these components, each for culture and linguistic decision, can be made as plug-compatible which may be used for other cultures, then with the help of module interconnection languages a localised version can be made with the combination of the localised components and the core. He further said that in the course of internationalisation, the components dependent upon language and other locale features should be separated.

The research on the cultural implications of softwares, which are basically English language based, is going on many developed countries. With this software will become more accessible to the people who don't understand English so that they should not stay behind to access the computer. Even then there are some problems, says Professor, that part of the world will not get localisation where market may be small or population is low or economic power is low which will deny them form using the important driver of development and growth.

The process of localisation and internationlisation is developing but seems to have politacl dimensions. Technological imperialism is a word frequently used by some people as they fear that the nation which develops software may impose their own view to the world through the software. Majority language, out of minority language groups, which may be dominant language of the area may have advantage but what about other minority languages?

The first man to envisioned Internet like structure was Vannervar Bush, science advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt during WWII. Grazing to his crystal ball he wrote in The Atlantic Monthly he saw MEMEX. Bush noted, "Memex would locate information by the mimic of human mind which operates by association of thoughts. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain." Which totally bypasses the conventional indexing. With the Memex device, users would be able to create information trails - links of related texts and illustrations - that could be stored and recalled for future reference. Today - some 50 years later - Bush’s "intricate web" has become a reality. The Internet have already altered the way people think and work. Today the Web is a network of computers navigated with "Browser" software that links them instantly to vast repositories of information in much the way Vannevar Bush imagined half a century ago.

For many Internet users surfing means checking out for web sites which includes information with audio, text, pictures and animation linked together in a special manner. The World Wide Web(WWW) or the Web, as it is commonly known, is sometimes confused with the Internet(Net). But being on the Web is not same as being on the Net.The relationship between the two is that WWW is a facility/utility which is available on the Internet. WWW is basically a set of protocols which helps a Internet user to access the information in interactive manner.

In 1990 Tim Berners-Lee at CERN(the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) in Switzerland started a project to built a "distributed hypermedia system" which is now called World Wide Web. The man behind the vision is now Director of World Wide Web Consortium, (W3C), a forum for the further development of the Web and based at MIT in US.

The World Wide Web consists of collection of informations which seems to be linked like a spider web that's why its nick named as the Web. The main part of the Web is a protocol called http (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). It is easily understood by the school time game. In a book a clue had to be found by going through different pages, as directed. For example they may write "go to page three" where something is written and tells you to "go to page thirty" where on wards you may have to "go to page sixty" and hence it continues. That means in all the mentioned pages you have a clue which guides you through different pages. Similarly When working with pages on the web you come across some keywords which are bold or underlined and you have to click these keywords to get further informations again and again. That means you go from link to link, fordward or backward as you desire just by clicking those keywords. This is known as Hypertext.

1. To Make A Presence. For 40 million prospective customers.

2. To Make Business Information Available. The most basic business infomation are; Who you are? What you do? What is your address? How to reach you? What methods of payment do you take? What are your working hours? Your site tells all your potential customers all information they need. It's like passing around business card.

3. To Sell Things.What is phone for? It allows your customer to communicate with you or vice versa , which in turn helps you sell things. Similarly WWW is, which is easier and cheaper.

4.To Serve Your Customers.The world is very busy and moving fast and WWW is the right place to provide information for the customer and fast.

5.To Drag Public To Do Business. Lots of money is spent on advertisements not every media can reach the clients all the time and by the way who advertises all the time? WWW is on-line all the time and anybody, anywhere can access the Web.

6.To Reach Worldwide. They don't have to go to France to buy the best champagne or they can get latest Toyota from Japan on the day of launch or get a carpet from Nepal sitting infront of their computer.

7. To Open International Markets.Once you are on WWW you are bound to get more enquiries about your products or services from far flungs of the world.

8. To Create a 24 Hour Service. As world is divided in to two halves, business is worldwide and 24 hours on. You sleep they get up and they sleep you get up,then how to do business faster. But Web pages serve the client, customer and partner 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No overtime.

9. To Reach The Media.Today the media is the most wired profession and on-line process is the cheapest and fastest way to give information to their readers. This helps them to avoid the old house of the pressroom and all the information can be provided on your web page. Many journos just go through these web pages.

10. To Serve Local Market.How about your neighbourhood? If you are located in Biratnagar, or Birgunj, there is probably(in future in our context) enough local customers with Web access.

Nepal on the Web. The history of the presence of Nepal on the Web is not primitive but now there are more than 70,000 documents(with Altavista)related to Nepal and divided in several categories like business, recreation, economy, region (with Yahoo). Sites on Nepal are maitained by individuals mostly from Nepalese students and Nepalese community in the US or Nepal loving people who had visited Nepal once and organizations concerned with Web-based business. Most of these advertisers are related to the travel trade.

Visit Nepal98 gets boostup with it's site at http://www.south-asia/visitnepal98/. This site is indexed at many other sites giving the exposure it needs.

-Rajib Subba
Publication date 12 November 1997. Cyber Post, The Kathmandu Post

The similarity between the postal mail and e-mail is pretty same except in e-mail you don’t need postage. With hulak you put a written letter inside an envelope with an address and stamps and drop it off for delivery. Where as with e-mail you need a e-mail program to execute,give the address, compose the message and send ofcourse through the computer. Today e-mail is considered to be a cost effective, non-interactive communication of data, text, image which you can send from your PC to any where in the world.

Now e-mail is not an alien name in corporate houses in Nepal. The e-mail users in Nepal is increasing and reaching to PCs even in houses which has becoming a reality. This service is provided by three Internet Service Providers(ISPs) in Nepal. The price may vary in between them for different services but still has to hit to a low level. Apart of this e-mail service there is another e-mail service which is free of cost and called We-based E-mail Services (WESs) and provided by the free Web-based E-mail Service Providers(WESPs) like Hotmail, Rocketmail, Juno, Netaddress, Bigfoot etc and based in the United States. With Internet access these services can be used from anywhere in the world which is it’s biggest advantage of making you mobile that too globally. And best part of these services are free of cost e-mails i.e. you don’t have to pay for the volumes of the mails used. To enlist yourself with these services just hit their Uniform Resource Locator(URLs) i.e. their Web site address and choose a username and password. The other good part is that you don’t have to go through all the hassels of calling local ISPs and paying bulk amount of money on installation. Once you are registered with them you get a lifetime address untill both parties do exist. The address which you get is permanent as long as you desire and can be accessed from anywhere in contrary to local ISPs. What I like with these address that they are short like yourname@hotmail.com which is easy to remember.

Whether you have a computer or not it doesnot matter as long as you can visit cyber cafes. Kathmanduites are getting a new taste of cyber culture since few months with the opening of a number of cyber cafes in town. You can visit CyberMatha , Himnet club, Cyber Corner, ADC Club and log-in to check your mails. Here you got to pay for the browse but not for your mails if you use these WESPs.

She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her -for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.No-one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her. I for one believe there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death. I share in your determination to cherish her memory.

Exceprts from the Queen’s message at the Royal Official Website.

When the Internet was coined no one ever imagined that it will be used also as a source of profound comfort for the bereaved, as a way to express and share grief after the loss of a loved one. A digital wellspring of human endeavors and appetites, the Net sometimes can be irritant and dissonant. But for many people grieving the loss of a loved one, it can be a place of calm and compassion and even provide a source of solace. There is a wealth of Web sites: tribute pages, information about death and how it affects the living, support groups, and individual memorials to lost loved ones have all been put on the Net by those wishing to share their experiences. Newsgroups such as alt.support.grief, are specifically geared toward bereavement to offer crucial support to fellow Net folks dealing with loss. There are postings like essays, memorials and poetry online by the people who have dealt with grief. In the time of disaster e-mail lessens the distance between family and friends in grief avoiding the intrusion of the phone calls or the delay of age old snail mail. The Internet provides total isolation during the time of turmoil.

This is the first time ever that people from every corner of the world have been brougt together not to watch an event on the television but to share the sad demise of their Princess together on the net. The response about the People’s Princess on the net has been never seen before and may not be seen again. The Internet has made possible a new way to share the tragedy with the world bringing millions of people together from each and every corner of the wired world to participate, commune, react and express themselves in ongoing chats, newsgroup postings, and on Web sites, thanks to this wired world so many people could participate in the mourning. Thousands of people logged into the Internet to pay tribute to Princess Diana. The unprecedented electronic outpouring of grief was testament to Diana’s global stature and her place in the hearts and affections of millions worldwide.

Those unable to place a personal floral tribute outside her Palace posted their grief-laden, and often angry, messages and floral tribute from the virtualflower Web site, www.virtualflower.com, via the Internet. There are many personal Web pages on the Internet of Diana posted by her fans before her death, some even links to darkside of the web like www.virtualgirl.com. Now, in the wake of her tragic death, many of Diana’s admirers have turned to creating Web sites mourning her loss, remembering her life and, in some cases, condemning the paparazzi. There are many memorials of Diana on the Net. A very special Web site dedicated to the late Princess of Wales has been established on the official royal Web site at www.royal.gov.uk. All the details, as well as news from Paris about the ongoing investigation into the causes of the fatal car crash, are updated regularly. You can read the Queen’s message at the official royal page. Those seeking an outlet for their grief may record their thoughts on the Princess’s untimely death in a virtual condolence book. This is one of the biggest advantage of the Information Technology allowing you to send condolences from your country that too just with a click of a mouse and fast.

A chat room set up to mourn her saw floods of messages like "Goodbye Diana... " "Can’t believe it..." "Deeply mourned..." "Wasteful death..." . One person wrote: "The reporters should have died, not her. I hope someone does something about this sick press." One woman posted this message to the CNN Plus message board: "We are all to blame for Diana’s death. Call it morbid curiosity. The public continues to require more and more information about people that we think we know. If we would stop our own urges to venture into the lives of the rich and/or famous, then the media would no longer have to supply for a demand. May God forgive us." CNN site at www.cnn.com , A Remembrance , a message board filled with outrages from all over the world including Nepal.

A search engine, Yahoo!, has set up a tribute, "Princess Diana 1961-1997," which includs a chat room dedicated to discussing her death. It has links to news service reports on her death and further investigation. Princess Diana Memorial WebRing has been set up to link all the sites about Diana. Most of these sites linked by the Memorial ring featured poems and photographs of Diana.

Jon Katz , a Wired columnist, wrote recently that it was unclear what this great media event and period of international mourning will lead to. "The death of Diana and the coverage that’s resulted merely reminds us that celebrity in the information age means something new, something immense, and, so far, uncontrollable," Katz recently wrote.