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RE: Vietnam—Stories since the War <http://www.pbs.org/pov/stories/>. Developed by P.O.V. Interactive, in cooperation with PBS Online, under the direction of Marc N. Weiss. Visited Dec. 20, 2001–Jan. 15, 2002.

RE: Vietnam is an interactive collecting, archival, and dialogue site focused on stories about the Vietnam War and its troubled, living legacy in history and individual lives over time. The site, developed by P.O.V. Interactive/PBS Online, was active from 1996 through 1998, soliciting, receiving, and posting thematically organized selections of individual stories, testimonies, oral histories, remembrances, and documents. It also supported threaded discussion groups, and it offered an extensively searchable database of collected materials. It ceased actively accepting contributions in March 1998, referring visitors to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, which has been carrying on work that is in many ways similar. 1

The Web is littered with inactive sites that can be annoying for those encountering them unawares—many buttons do not work (here, the posted stories are available, but not the searchable archive), and many hot links are stone cold. But sites all of three to five years old, such as this one, offer a sense of how rapidly online substance, presentation, and interactivity have evolved. And they may offer—in approach, organization, and especially in posted material particularly useful for research—resources otherwise unavailable precisely because of how current sites have evolved. . . .

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