Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shopping agents, better known as bots, are practically prehistoric in Internet terms. They've been around in one form or another for four years. Their basic purpose is to search the Web and compare all the prices you can possibly pay for the same item, making you an expert bargain hunter in a single click. Once considered a threat to e-business--after all, sellers benefit when the consumer has incomplete knowledge of prices--bots are now on the buying list of every major player in the Internet industry. They're into their second generation and much improved. And they...
...cards that fit into a credit-card-size slot on a laptop computer; a teeny, 2-in. antenna--so cute!--pops up to send and receive data at 19.2 kbps. That's a fairly pedestrian speed, but if it meant I could do e-mail and even browse the Web while riding the Long Island Rail Road, I'd happily put up with it. Imagine all the cool things I could do, unbound from the desktop...
...constantly changing unused frequencies in the cellular network, a juggling act that succeeds when the user is at rest. Indeed, when I was sitting at my desk 23 floors above the streets of Manhattan, the connection was just fine: data moved easily to and from the Merlin, and even Web pages could be loaded within a reasonable amount of time. But when I was not at rest--when I was, in fact, hauling along on an eastbound train--two tin cans and a string would have made a tighter connection. I found it all but useless. I could grab...
...were always on the road, traveling among big cities, it would be terrific never again to have to reconfigure my laptop's dial-up connections. It's also swell to be able to sit in a boring meeting and check e-mail or browse the Web...
...Web page is not there any more, and no one told us it was [not] going to be," said Carletta P. Bruno '01, RUS's publicity chair...