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...Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a company that specializes in "pet moving." Enquire about buying industrial-age nuts and bolts from "the Bolt Boys" in South Africa, or teddy bears in upstate New York. Exotic cigar labels! Tantric sex guides! Four-poster beds for dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers and People: Superconnected | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers and People: Superconnected | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...strike your fancy, there are other sites worth visiting. The free E-Greetings Network egreetings.com offers animated Austin Powers cards ("Very Shagadelic!"), along with Star Trek- and King of the Hill-themed cards. Unfortunately, the site's obnoxious registration form requires personal data, such as year of birth and zip code, before letting you send a card. For photo-realistic images, nothing tops the selection at Corbis.com which lets visitors turn any of its thousands of high-resolution art and nature images into digital postcards. The one catch: www.corbis.com prominently appears on each card, making it feel more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Greetings | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

Want to write a thesis? First consider the last-minute costs: Thesis paper, acid-free: $13.50/100 sheets Printer ink: $99.95(Mac), $139.95 (HP) Zip disks: $29.99/2 Index cards: $1.69 Post-It TM page Markers: 3.99 Highlighters: $1.19 Coffee: about $1/cup...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Down to the Wire: Last-minute Tales of Thesis Trauma | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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