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Right, but you have to be careful what you download. Any fool--or charlatan--with a telephone, modem and computer can create a decent-looking website. Result: an epidemic of Internet snake oil, featuring discredited cancer "cures" like laetrile staging a comeback, $200 "second opinions" with more disclaimers than a sky-diving class, and incompetent "diagnoses" from self-styled "professors" and "academicians" at $50 or so a pop. What's next? An e-auction site for an appendectomy or laser eye surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web Docs | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...bothered spending hours wandering through dead-end links searching for a particular Phish bootleg. With Napster, however, all you have to do is type in the name of the song or artist and up will pop 2,745 Phish songs sorted by the host computer's type of modem connection and ping rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Free Juke Box | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...years. But just in case it does not turn out that way, be warned. If my column stops appearing, you'll know why. If I stop showing up at the office, look for me in the homeless shelter. I'll be the one with the laptop and the wireless modem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drinking Aftershave: A Confession | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...lieu of agreement on how the transition to taxation could be made. The commission is also expected to recommend that Congress repeal the 3 percent telephone excise tax that mars the phone bills of Americans. Another recommendation would urge Congress to permanently ban taxes on Internet access. (Maybe that modem tax hoax had some effect after all.) MORE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divided Commission Expected to Recommend Extending Net Tax Freeze | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...finally had to reinstall the sound-card driver. Millennium behaves like a time machine so you can easily roll your system back to the day before whatever trouble you're experiencing began. Naturally, it didn't work for me. After installing Millennium on a PC in my office, the modem suddenly stopped resetting itself. I rolled the system back. No change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aqua: The Movie | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

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