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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And suddenly life will never be the same. It was like the first time I received an e-mail. Trust me on this: once you get high-speed access to the Net and it's at your disposal all the time, you'll understand what all the hoopla is about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Modems | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Within a day of getting online, however, I realized I needed two things: a home network so the two computers in my office could share the cable modem, and a fire wall to protect my machines. The fire wall was especially urgent, I felt. It spooked me to leave my...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Modems | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

For my home network, I chose 3Com's HomeConnect Home Network Kit ($149), which allowed me to link my two machines and modem via telephone wire. Note: you'll need to open up each PC and drop in a PCI card, which used to make me nervous back when I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Modems | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

The downside to the high-speed experience? Setting up a home network and fire wall involves considerable fiddling. I needed (and got) tech support from both 3Com and Network ICE. And naturally, within hours of finally getting my network and fire wall working, my cable modem crashed. I called Cablevision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blazing Modems | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

2 A DANGEROUS FRIEND by Ward Just. A well-meaning American sociologist arrives in Vietnam in the mid-1960s on a quasi-official mission to help prop up the civil government. What follows is a small, tense drama that foreshadows the wartime tragedies that lie ahead. Knowing how reality turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Best Books Of 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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