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That's literally true in the case of ZapMe! Corp., which gives schools a free ride on the information superhighway, providing high-speed PCs, Internet access, laser printers and technical support. The catch? Students must use the computers for a minimum of four hours daily, while staring at a 2-in. x 4-in. billboard of rotating ads. Students earn "ZapPoints" that can be redeemed at an e-commerce mall. "There's a huge gap between what schools need and what they can afford," says Frank Vigil, president of the San Ramon-based company. "We want to provide the solution...
...REALITY] Gore was an early advocate of the information superhighway. But the Internet was invented in 1969, the year he graduated from college...
...Exactly. As I second-guess you--as we all just whiz by one another on the superhighway--the more we get tangled in the Web, searching. More matchless souls in the void, struggling for links...
...early '90s, electronic mail and the Internet were big. Technologists forecast an Internet-centered view of computing called "mirror worlds." Technophiles enthused about the "information superhighway." The World Wide Web emerged in 1994, making browsers necessary, and Netscape was founded that same year. Sun Microsystems developed Java, the Internet programming language. Gates hung back. It wasn't until 1996 that Microsoft finally, according to Gates himself, "embraced the Internet wholeheartedly...
Dingell's criticism is particularly searing in view of his liberal credentials and the fact that he was chairman of the committee when a promising young member named Al Gore was selling the intriguing concept of an "information superhighway." But Dingell is far from alone. Commerce Senators who have reviewed the thousands of grant applications pouring in complain that schools are attempting to use the program to buy everything from carpeting and paint to computers that exceed the power of those at NASA. What's more, lawmakers grouse, why should the Federal Government pay for something many schools would...