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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...door sedans. That's how we experience the Web: You only get two choices of Web browser, Netscape and Internet Explorer, and let's face it, there ain't a whole lot of difference between them. Fortunately for us, third-party developers are changing that by making programs - usually free ones -- that live on top of your browser and give it new features, new functions, and even a whole new look and feel. There should be a name for them - call them plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Build Up Your Browser | 8/11/1999 | See Source »

...company that's doing this in the biggest way is NeoPlanet. If you've heard of them, you probably know them as the outfit that made the Austin Powers browser. When you install NeoPlanet's software (it's free, but you need to have a PC running Internet Explorer 4.0) what it does, essentially, is bury your copy of IE inside a new improved interface. The cool thing is, NeoPlanet's interface is better. MORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Build Up Your Browser | 8/11/1999 | See Source »

JOHN HINCKLEY Feds will allow him free time from the asylum--but only supervised day trips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...after Andrew gave me my diploma, in what had to be the lamest, most awkward ceremony since I got my last diploma, that I found out Skip Barber offers a free course at high schools called "Crashing Is a Bummer." It certainly would cover the bummer of crashing your girlfriend's parents' car. Unfortunately, Andrew couldn't help me with that part, but he did tell me Jerry Seinfeld, who took the course a couple of times, totaled two Formula Four cars. Feeling sorry, Seinfeld slapped a Skip Barber magnet on his TV show's refrigerator. It is in that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Got a Fast Car | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...from hell was memorialized on an episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer and the other workers at Springfield's nuclear-power plant head up snow-covered Mount Useful in pairs, competing to be first to reach a cabin at the top. The boss cheats, the employees just want free sandwiches, and an avalanche sabotages the whole thing. In the real world, climbing a mountain or learning to handle a kayak with someone you've barely met or, even worse, someone you see at the office every day can be just as lame. Toss in the fear of tackling physically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: Extreme Offsites | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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