Word: downloading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today, production of the paper is almost completely digital. Writers compose articles with the aid of word processors, editors download photos from the Web, and designers manipulate images on a computer screen...
...When the Internet-powers-that-be work alone, however, the results are more dubious. Witness Intel's unveiling Tuesday of Quick Web technology, which will do little more than double the download of a 28.8 modem, while delivering clunky graphics and cached pages. Most surfers would likely prefer to wait for the wintel-Bell cartel to deliver. Next problem: how to handle traffic when everyone and their grandmother is sucking down a million bits a second...
...Computer networks allow information to be accessed, accumulated and correlated in ways that threaten privacy as never before. Unseen eyes (of your boss, your neighbor, thousands of marketers) can track what you buy, the things you read and write, where you travel and whom you call. Your kids can download pornographic pictures and chat with strangers...
Within the past month, the Harvard student said, he created first a personal Web page and then his own FTP server so that his friends could download their favorite songs in MP3 format onto their personal computers...
...students too lazy or dumb to write their own. Sahr, you should know, is not a defendant in that suit since the thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download for free. (Help yourself.) But he runs the biggest of the term-paper sites, so everyone wants to interview him about this trivial and silly controversy. "I've never spent so much time on the phone with the press," he says happily...