Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sound card." Quittner recommends waiting two years to buy a more advanced computer "because by then, they'll have Windows 97." For Windows users with the proper equipment now, he says, the new rollout is an improvement. "It comes closer to true multitasking, and it uses 32-bit processing, so your programs will run faster. It really does makeWindowsrun more like a Macintosh, but it's still not as easy...
...best thing Netscape has going for it is its techies, most notably Andreessen, who, as a 22-year-old undergraduate at the University of Illinois, conceived the first graphical Web browser, Mosaic, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the fall of 1992. That bit of software transformed the drab, black-and-white, hard-to-get-around-in world of the Internet into a colorful place and stimulated an explosion in new kinds of content, from Web-based magazines to online casinos. Mosaic, which is licensed by the university to customers, was also given away and gained an estimated...
...Subscribers pay $1 to $2 an hour and get the usual special-interest forums, where they can post messages; a commercial zone, where companies as diverse as newspapers and consumer-electronics makers can show off their wares; and chat areas, where people can type at each other. My favorite bit of weirdness: the chat area, Chat World, is modeled on a hotel, with different floors, concierge (for questions, not dry cleaning), atrium, restaurant and spa. An online spa. Now that's my idea of exercise...
...create multimedia pages that rival anything available on the Internet today. An even bigger plus: Microsoft will handle billing on behalf of its content partners, the merchants who will set up shop there. That could help create a new market for information, based on people purchasing info by the bit, for tiny sums of money. Want to see yesterday's front page of, say, a newspaper called the Wonkonkoma Times? It will cost you 2¢. Want to see this minute's headlines? That's a dime. Such small transactions are uneconomical for credit-card companies but essential to Net commerce...
Along with this view came an opposition to affirmative action for a variety of reasons, including, although not exclusively, the belief that the women or minorities I was competing against for jobs who were coming out of Harvard had every bit the opportunity I did and that merit should determine who received what position. While women (and other groups) might constitute a minority in many fields, as more and more came out and entered fields such as business, law and medicine the gap would be closed...