Speed

We could use lots of fancy adjectives, or analogies involving the Autobahn, but here's the real question: How much faster would the Internet need to be to feel fun again? Five times faster? Ten times? Twenty? Should we keep going?

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Email

The days of plain old text emails are over, replaced by missives chock full of color, graphics, HTML, and whomping big attachments. Send and receive them in seconds.

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Newsgroups

Part helpful neighbor, part Persian bazaar, part pub brawl, Usenet newsgroups represent the best and worst the Internet has to offer. But we've got 'em, all 45,000.

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Personal Home Pages

Guttenberg. Franklin. Hearst.
All amateurs. Grab a piece of the Web and show them how it's done.

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