Word: modems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must say my PC and modem have given me access to things I never dreamed of even before I learned I had multiple sclerosis. I would most certainly be using those resources even if I weren't handicapped. But I am, and shopping on the Net has become critical to the preservation of my independence and my energy. Now, if I could only get Bill Gates and his buddies to clean my house. MEG MCCANN Castro Valley, California
...last week by quietly offering Web surfers a preview of a superbrowser, code-named Atlas. The program is designed to compete with Microsoft's Explorer, which Net users have labeled slow and short on appealing features. Though downloading Atlas was rough going (more than an hour on a 14.4 modem), patient users were treated to a program stuffed with new applications, part of Netscape's plan to outdazzle and outperform Microsoft. Below, a look inside Atlas, available at www.netscape.com...
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...same screen. This week Gateway 2000, the PC direct marketer, will introduce the long-promised big-screen PC. The $4,000 Destination consists of a PC with a 31-in. monitor, a wireless keyboard and access to television signals and the Internet. Mix in a high-speed modem and a friendly interface that helps byte phobiacs navigate the Net, and you'd have interactive television. Not a reality yet, but no longer a mere fantasy. (1-800-846-2000) --By Robertson Barrett, Daniel Eisenberg and Michael Krantz
...INTERNET IS A GREAT PLACE TO visit, but most modem jockeys, once they receive their first online bill, find they wouldn't want to live there--at least for long. Commercial online services like America Online, CompuServe and Prodigy have made the Net accessible to millions at an hourly rate, making it all too easy to run up hundreds of dollars a month in connection charges. Smaller, flat-rate, local-access providers like Netcom or PSInet have championed flat-rate service that allows unlimited access at $20 to $30 a month but can't always keep up with demand; busy...