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This new Web browser, with its unprecedented ability to bring multimedia and interactivity to the Web, will prompt a "new generation" of Web pages--especially if Sun ever gets around to developing a Windows 95 version...
Through applets, much of the computing horsepower necessary for multimedia is delegated from the Web site to the user's machine, resulting in vastly greater flexibility in the functionality of Web pages...
...commercial services refine the means by which they deliver Web technology to the mass market and manufacturers continue to drive prices for multimedia hardware into the cellar, it shouldn't be long before HotJava-like technology is available to a wide audience...
...best-read sections of Usenet is alt.sex, a newsgroup so popular it has spawned more than 60 offshoots, from alt.sex.bestiality.barney to alt.sex.woody-allen. Half a dozen other Usenet groups also store free, X-rated images that users can download and view on their computers. On the multimedia portion of the Internet known as the Web, Penthouse and others serve up free, frontally nude cyber-pinups. Those sites are frequently jammed beyond capacity. (Last year a Carnegie Mellon graduate student surveying sex on the Internet determined that 450,620 pornographic images and text files had been downloaded 6,432,297 times...
...investors lining up? Because of the team's past. Because of the future it might hold: that DreamWorks will be the prototype plugged-in multimedia company of the new millennium. And because the exuberance of Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen is infectious. It suggests that there is still some Hollywood romance in the youthful determination of three middle-aged men to act like Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the old MGM musicals, shouting, "Hey, guys, let's put the show on right here...