Possible Clues:

• Like much social interaction nowadays
• Where 117 Across takes place
• Hooked up and one accepts nothing in return, perhaps?
• One outside, fifty in seeing the sites
• Like many retailers today
• Reading e-mail, e.g.
• Attached direct to central computer
• Connected to central computer system
• Surfing with a mouse, e.g.
• One place to shop