>Mosaic is an extended form of publishing, in my opinion. >It is not about having a dialogue with an audience. >It is a one-way transmission of information from those who >are "in-the-know" to those who are not. Good point. I guess like most media we have to balance its flaws with its virtues. The Web's three virtues: it is distributed, it provides hypertext links, and it is very easy to set up and use. These qualities make it useful for presenting some kinds of information which might not appear in a more interactive context. Perhaps the Web is more of a soapbox medium than a conversation medium? >sllooowwww We use dial-up to get to the Web so we know slooooowwwwww, but our browsers let us turn off the auto download of pictures which makes hopping about much faster. I too like the text first. The images are irresistible icing. A click gets the picture when I am willing to wait. The speed problems we have do seem to be concentrated in the connection not the software. Used in-house on our LAN, even image retrieval is pretty snappy. Guy Hermann | Mystic Seaport Museum | "Technology is lust removed [log in to unmask] | Mystic, Conn., USA | from nature." Don Delillo