Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...zero-sum game--at least, not yet. Case quickly countered with his own new deal, to have Hughes Electronics' DirecTV offer AOL via satellite to its 7 million customers. The resulting product will be called AOL TV. Microsoft, of course, is still pushing its own interactive television service, Web TV. And here too the battle lines are drawn...
That may be a little too paranoid even for Gates. But when it comes to the broadband Internet, the world's richest man has reason to worry. After all, high-speed Web access and the proliferation of Web-based applications could one day make his operating system obsolete. That's why when the trial resumes, the threat of AOL Everywhere may be Microsoft's best defense...
...Francisco Bay. But his real home is the virtual world of the Net, an insight he achieved while hunched over a laptop in a hotel bathroom in Bhurban, Pakistan (the john being the only place where he could plug in his modem). He was logged onto the Web, fiddling with a line of code for one of his company's main computers, when the epiphany came: "This works! The Internet has happened! I'm placeless...
...placeless is where Gullichsen has always wanted to be. At 38, the wiry, snaggle-haired programmer has achieved what for many entrepreneurs would be the ultimate American Dream: a frictionless, self-propagating moneymaking scheme--in his case, selling a variant of the "domain names" that organize the Web's millions of addresses. "The great thing about my company," he says cheerfully, "is that it doesn't really exist...
...mail project that got Gullichsen and his longtime business partner, Eric Lyons, thinking. The ever growing Web now has hundreds of millions of sites, most organized into three so-called top-level domains: com net and org The demand for com names has advanced to the point where speculators who snap up the most valuable ones can resell them for thousands and even hundreds of thousands of dollars. (Three Star Wars sites--EPISODEI.com and its two sequels--were recently sold for $1 million on eBay.) Given that the number of websites is doubling every year, the demand...