Word: shared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plugged them into regular electrical outlets. (The $150 kit also came with extra power strips.) He then installed the software, provided on one CD-ROM, into both PCs. "This was definitely something we were looking for," he says of the new system. "We wanted to be able to share Internet access, transfer documents without having to save them first on floppies, and save large files from one machine to the zip drive we had connected to the other machine. We could do all that using this system." The best thing about it: no circuit boards to install inside...
Sure, there are other benefits, such as being able to share printers, scanners, fax machines and zip drives, and to be able to swap files instantly. But Net access, particularly high-speed access, say industry analysts, will be what really drives consumer demand. New York research firm Jupiter Communications predicts that one-fifth of American homes will have a digital subscriber line, cable modem and other high-speed pipe by 2002. You can bet that everyone in those homes--whether they like to play games, shop, chat, or trade stocks online--will want to share the big bandwidth...
...leaves us in a quandary. When we last saw Bill Gates, as a fuzzy image on a videotaped deposition, he appeared surly and arrogant. He followed each question with a lengthy silence, denied knowledge of e-mails he had written and professed not to understand words like "market share," "concerned" or "ask." He was, in other words, one of the most potent weapons in the government's armory...
...entirely. Both are in love with e-mail, even though one has been publicly burned by his. In this antitrust case, Gates' In and Out boxes are the nearest things to a smoking gun, as far as the feds are concerned. Among their favorite extracts: "Winning Internet browser share is very important to us," "Do we have a clear plan on what we want Apple to do to undermine Sun?" and "I think there is a very powerful deal of some kind we could do with Netscape...
...drive home, I realized that I do want to live my life through someone else. I want to share someone else's experiences and put her ahead of me. I wasn't sure I wanted that more than a mansion, monkeys and naked twins, but it seems more attainable. Plus, Hef also said, looking out over the house on his property where his ex-wife and kids live, "The divorce wasn't my choice. Maybe it's not over. It's not over until the fat lady sings--and we don't allow fat ladies on the premises...