Re: Prisoner of cyberspace

Lloyd Wood (eep1lw@surrey.ac.uk)
Tue, 12 May 1998 18:05:34 +0100 (BST)


On Tue, 12 May 1998, Jim Whitehead wrote:

> http://www.pathfinder.com/fortune/1998/980525/liv.html

'Two Mac Powerbooks - one for cybertravel, one for notes'.

Let me guess - a full-screen browser buttonbar vs full-screen Word
buttonbar.

Computer windowing interfaces are going nowhere fast.

L.

Gee, if he was using Windows, he could just hit alt-tab. They think of
everything.

> As soon as Rohit reads this, he'll be ashamed he didn't do it first. The
> setup: reporter goes to Martha's Vineyard (an island off the coast of
> Massachusetts) in January, and has to live entirely off the net. For a
> week. Any food, communication, etc., has to occur because an IP packet was
> sent. The results are *very* amusing.

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