I am curious about how many people participating here have
          actually used the Mosaic/Web combo. I've only used it once,
          though I have an institutional hookup, my particular
          connection doesn't accomodate it (long story about network
          architecture and system administrators.)
 
          That sucker is slllooowwww (by the way, that is one of the
          comments that I would prefer *not* quoted and cited, as
          succinct as it may be.) I mean, the price you pay for
          choosing a new screen is like a minute or more of screen
          redraw, only to find out that it is another crummy weather
          shot... We have a high speed net hookup, and we were using a
          486/33 computer with zoomy graphics, so I think that our
          setup was pretty well optimized.
 
          Is this really what people are so excited about? I
          personally really prefer the speed and flexibility of text.
          But then again, I like a command line interface ("what good
          is it learning how to use a computer if it doesn't seem
          cryptic to the uninitiated?")
 
          I once read a *very* compelling editorial in Wired magazine
          by Negroponte, the director of the MIT Media Lab. In it, he
          says that transmitting huge bandwidth over the wires is a
          waste of computing power and infrastructure money. What
          should be transmitted are "clues" that allow the local
          computer to reconstuct full motion video or images, or
          whatever using its own computing power.
 
          Eric L (for Luddite) Siegel
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