SAN FRANCISCO -- What was the weather like the day Pearl Harbor was attacked? If this type of trivia intrigues you, chances are you'll fit right in with the community at Weather Underground. At www.wunderground.com, the site is the oldest on the Internet to provide weather data in the nation. Users can view page after page of minutiae on weather on their birthdays, in their neighborhood or, if they have a personal weather station, in their own backyard. "The way the Internet makes things meaningful is to create a community," said John Celenza, who used to program for Weather Underground and is now a graduate student at Stanford. "We're creating weather enthusiasts." The technology that made...
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