Word: downloading
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...company recently changed its name to Netscape Communications Corp., and its Web browser, Netscape, is considered by some to be superior to NCSA Mosaic. In particular, Netscape displays graphics as they are being downloaded, as opposed to Mosaic, which forces the user to wait until the download is complete...
...many local networks do offer limited resources to users on the Internet at large. Harvard students can access host computers at Stanford and download programs from their public software libraries. Likewise, anyone on the Internet can use "gopher" to peruse Harvard's course catalogs...
...Peter Max rendition of the White House, a Camelot-ish photo of the President on horseback, recorded meows from Socks - these offerings and more are available at the White House's strenuously friendly new Internet site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) Users can also "tour" the mansion (except the family quarters) and download cartoons poking fun at Al Gore. More in the familiar style of the federal government are the retrievable studies and press releases from the likes of the EPA and the Small Business Administration. White House officials stress that the site was designed by non-taxpayer-funded interns...
Others are more eager to mix traditional religion with digital transmission: the Jewish orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch sect eagerly provides translations of theological works (gopher site: lubavitch.chabad. org/1) over the Net. Cyberspace's devoted may also download the King James Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Koran and bits from the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Catholic University site offers a database with lyrics to the millennium's most popular -- and currently chart-topping -- Gregorian chants (http://gopher://vmsgopher.cua.edu...
Harvard's e-mail processing system froze for several hours last weekend after the mail server locked up while trying to download a program from another machine, Burner said...