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Technology
And The Family

MARK LICHTERMAN SPECIAL TO THE APPLETREE

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ou've perused the
World Wide Web as a collec-
move smoothly from one site
marriage and birth an-
tion of interconnected com-
to another, following your in-
nouncements,
puters located all around the
terests, regardless of where in
scanned the obituaries and
world. Organizations and indi-
the world the next site hap-
scoped out the real-estate list-
viduals across the globe who
pens to be.
ings.
believe they have some infor-
Service providers fall into
Now you are leisurely read-
mation from which the rest of
two basic categories: direct In-
ing through The AppleTree,
us might benefit create a Web
ternet Service Providers (ISP)
this brand-new section on
site, a collection of Web
and the major online services
family matters, when you en-
pages, housed in a computer
counter what you believe to
connected to the system.
be yet another column on
By entering the familiar
why life itself depends on
"http://www...." — the uni-
your purchase of a computer
versally recognized address
powerful enough to fly the
format — into our computers,
space shuttle.
which are then connected to
WAIT DON'T RUN! The
the Web through a service
object of this column is not to
provider, via a modem and
scare you with paragraphs of
confusing "technobabble,"
nor is it to provide endless
reviews of the newest
Mark Lichterman lives and
software titles or of
works in Huntington Woods as a \V"
fax machines that
health-care lawyer and writer, and as a
double as a toaster.
full-thne caregiver for his 5-yeapold son and
There are plenty of
2-year-old daughtet You can reach him on
other outlets that do
e-mail at susmar@ix.netcom.com .
both of these quite well.
Instead, I hope every
month, with your help, to find
ways to demonstrate how the
phone line, we can travel
such as America Online,
technological revolution that
along the Web to any location
Prodigy and Compuserve.
is exploding around us can be
in the world to receive the in-
The ISPs generally provide
harnessed to enrich our lives
formation available at that ad-
faster connections and an e-
as Jewish families.
dress.
mail address, but require the
The Internet, and all of its
What is especially astound-
use of a separate Web browser
component parts, is clearly
ing about the system is that
— the software that allows
the technological advance
most Web sites contain "hy-
the user to travel along the
gaining the greatest publicity.
perlinks," generally in blue
Web. Most such ISPs provide
The World Wide Web is in-
letters, by which it is possible
unlimited access to the Web
creasingly the most important
to go directly to other related
for around $20 a month.
element of the system known
sites with a click of the
The major online providers
collectively as the Internet.
mouse. The term "surfing the
charge around $10 a month
It is useful to view the
Net" arises from this ability to
for 5-6 hours of online time