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...beginning there was one Web browser. It was called Mosaic, and if you didn't like it you could go back to watching Murphy Brown, or whatever it was we did before we had the Web. Then Microsoft started giving away Internet Explorer, Mosaic turned into Netscape, and suddenly life was complicated. It was like Coke vs. Pepsi, or Mets vs. Yankees: everybody had to choose. When Microsoft won the browser wars, by hook or by crook (the jury is still out on that), life got simple again...
Brace yourself. A nonprofit group loosely affiliated with Netscape is about to release a new browser called Mozilla. It's fast, it's flexible, and it has the backing of AOL (which owns Netscape, not to mention TIME) and its 35 million users. Life is about to get complicated...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Computer Services launched yesterday its new Webmail service, which allows students, faculty and staff to check e-mail through any normal web browser...
...time to deal with everything your Internet browser brought home from its travels on the World Wide Web. Use Options or Preferences to get rid of unwanted cookies and clean out your cache files. Give your computer a blood test by going on the Web and downloading the latest in antivirus software. Then run a disk defragmenter to straighten out the tangle of files stored on your hard drive. This can speed up your computer's performance. But as with any major renovation, you should back up important documents beforehand, just to be safe...
...what about the rest of us? Is it really so very easy to track down drugs on a whim, just by opening a browser? In the interest of journalism, I set out to answer my own question, and found a very different world than what's described in the U.N. report. The U.N., of course, is a venerable institution with many resources, and I am just one small person - so perhaps it's not surprising that I could find no evidence of said hard-core Internet drug culture...