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Young, hip Mosaic Communications was supposed to have the edge in the race to improve on NCSA Mosaic -- the Internet "browser" that made the complex computer network surprisingly easy to use. After all, the Silicon Valley start-up hired away most of the hackers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who had written the original program, and their new version -- Mosaic Netscape -- is suddenly the hottest thing on the Net. So why are AT& T, IBM and Digital Equipment licensing a competing version from low-profile Spyglass? Because Spyglass has something Mosaic never bothered to get -- a license...
...lately has seemed more accessible to ordinary mortals, it is largely the result of two inventions: the first is the World Wide Web, an organizing system within the Internet that makes it easy to establish links between computers around the world; the second is a program called Mosaic, a "browser" that presents the information in the Web in the point-and-click format so familiar to Macintosh and Windows users...
Marius is an accomplished writer and novelist,most recently of the critically acclaimed Afterthe War. He has authored textbooks on writingas well as a biography of Thomas More. He alsowrites "The Browser," a books column for HarvardMagazine...
...Broadway biggies are here: Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Jelly's Last Jam, The Most Happy Fella, Five Guys Named Moe, The Will Rogers Follies, The Secret Garden, Once on This Island, Grand Hotel and, in an earlier gestation, Falsettos. The ardent browser will find off-Broadway hits (Song of Singapore) and fizzles (Stephen Sondheim's Assassins) and even the season's notorious flops on Broadway (Nick & Nora) and off (Eating Raoul). If Moose Murders had been a musical, someone would now be recording...
...playing resident of Vermont, the city boy who likes London tea shops, the gunner who belongs to both the N.R.A. and the A.C.L.U. and the provocateur who holds that women have no instinct for compromise and negotiation. Ranging widely, Mamet allows that "I am, by nature and profession, a browser." With the expanded confidence that comes with success and fame, he ambles in where Broadway and Hollywood angels fear to tread. It is fun to watch him keep his balance...