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...debut of SLATE, Microsoft's much awaited webzine, got plenty of attention from netizens last week, and not just for its catchy name. Seems the 'zine kicked some versions of Netscape Navigator, the Web's most popular browser, into an unrecoverable crash--and added grist to the Microsoft-wants-to-rule-the-world mill. Instead of seeing Slate's snappy commentary on politics and culture (excerpts of which also appear in TIME), Netscape 1.0 viewers were treated to a page of gibberish followed by a shutdown. Was the snafu a sign of incompetence, or was it, as conspiracy buffs asked...
...English language is alive and ill. The very quality that enriches the vocabulary--its undiscriminating tolerance for the new--obliges dictionary editors to acknowledge such a gallimaufry of new words and phrases that even the most casual browser wants to cry havoc...
...easy to navigate the World Wide Web. Navigating the infant Web, which transforms the Internet's isolated, text-based sites into one vast, hyperlinked, multimedia-capable network, got Clark thinking--and acting. He and Andreessen founded Mosaic Communications (soon renamed Netscape) and built a business around an improved Web browser. The result was one of history's headiest corporate ascents, as the ubiquitous Netscape Navigator browser helped spawn the world's startling online stampede. "The Internet was the information highway everyone was looking for," says Clark. "They just hadn't recognized...
...deals with everyone from telephone companies to Hollywood. Virtually the entire data-intensive world--which is to say, virtually the entire world--has concluded that the Web is the future of communications, and is now retooling to stay in lockstep with Netscape (and vice versa: Netscape perpetually updates its browser to accommodate new Web applications). "The list of businesses being transformed," says Clark, includes "broadcasting, publishing, software, finance, shopping, entertainment services, consumer electronics...It's a massive, massive change. We just happened to see it first and set the commercial agenda...
...great Internet boom has been fueled by a startling business model: make a great product, then give it away. Browser titan Netscape and search-engine companies like Yahoo distribute free goods, hoping that market share will pay off when the Net supports profitable ventures...