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From: prowns@minerva.cis.yale.edu Try using NetScape for looking
at the world wide web. It's more stable, faster, and looks all
right over a 9600 baud modem. You can turn off the images and
just look at the ones that you are interested in. You can ftp
Netscape from ftp.mcom.com in the Netscape directory.
Sarah Prown Sterling Memorial Library Yale U
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From: rk27 <Robert_P_KOLKER@umail.umd.edu> It might be of
interest to the list that Microsoft is providing (free!) a new
internet browser and editor that works from inside Word for
Windows. With this add on you can use word to make html documents
as well as browse the Web. Downloadable from MS's Web site
http://www.microsoft.com or from their (faster) ftp site under
the deskapps/IA subdirectory. The file is wordia.exe.
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From: Michael L. Hall <mlhall@netcom.com> I'm curious to know
why the discussions of the World Wide Web have seemed to focus on
Mosaic and Netscape. I've used both, and would agree that
Netscape is superior, but both require direct internet
connections with relatively fast CPUs and considerable band width
to run satisfactorily IMHO. For home use, for more than a year
now, I've been using LYNX. There are no pretty pictures or icons,
but these are rarely essential to informational browsing, and
frankly most of what I'm looking for is textual in nature anyway.
If I want pictures, I save them to the disk at my shell account
and download them for viewing later. This delayed gratification
is sometimes an annoyance, but rarely so. My main point is that
LYNX is available to everyone with internet access. It is fast
and getting more dependable and flexible with each upgrade. It is
available on practically every UNIX machine, and if it isn't you
can get the code and compile your own executable. With LYNX you
can do everything Barton Stanley found so profitable, and you can
avoid many of the frustrations Norman Hinton enumerated,
especially the waiting. I know that some folks will say the
graphics are the main thing on the Web, but I disagree. The main
thing about WWW access to the Internet is its ease of navigation,
and LYNX provides that with speeds that are perfectly acceptable
even with a 2400 baud dial-up connection, which I have had to
endure recently from my office. With a 14,400 connection LYNX is
superior to most graphical browsers in speed and general
functionality. Web URL:
http://www.cc.ukans.edu/about_lynx/www_start.html
ftp: ftp2.cc.ukans.edu/pub/lynx
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From: Willard McCarty <mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca>
As far as I am concerned, proper conditions are (1) a fast
computer, fast enough to run Mosaic or NetScape comfortably, with
good screen, preferably at least 17-inch, non-interlaced, and a
suitable video-card; (2) a fast modem, minimum 14.4; and (3) a
direct Internet connection, via Ethernet or dialup SLIP/PPP.
Slipknot is clever, but I find it fussy. I'm lucky enough to have
a UNIX service that supports PPP and so can explore the WWW
comfortably early in the morning or late at night (EST). Still,
it's mostly promise. Still, that promise does get my blood to
race. But, I tell my students, beware of "developed-nation
myopia" -- for which some may wish to substitute,
"developed-university myopia".
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