The road less traveled: Internet collaboration
Lorrie Faith Cranor · XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students · 1996
The Internet is often hyped as an excellent tool for facilitating collaboration between geographically distant people.Such collaboration occurs in a wide variety of areas including scientific research, software development, conference planning, political activism, and creative writing.Examples of projects made possible through Internet communication abound.Indeed it is unlikely that students from around the world would have gotten together to produce this magazine had it not been for the Internet.But lost in all the excitement are the stories of the trials and tribulations of Internet collaboration.