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To: ahhaha who wrote (21004)	4/17/2000 11:17:00 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 29970

SI is low priority data. If it had any significance, you would store it locally. I trust it'll be there when I get back to it, it's a low priority to back it up because so far I haven't lost anything on it yet. But I wouldn't go so far to say it has no significance. The best example of data that would be stored or mirrored on the web would be data from a PIM. You need it when you travel, it needs to be moved from device to device and it is extremely time consumming to replace. PIM applications that are web based were the earliest web based apps out there. Email is another. Nothing worse than getting home and realizing that that email (or email address) that you wanted to respond to is sitting on your work machine, if it is on a web server you can access it anywhere. Give me a fast connection and a virtual web drive and I'll never play "sneaker net" again. I go visit friends and regardless of the computer they have, I'm right at home. Right now, a combo of browser, SI, Excite, Yahoo, my online broker serve as my home away from home. With those guys I can do just about everything I do communication wise with my computer. The data is never stored on my local machine except when I want to download an Arcobat file that I need edit capacity or need to download a software fix to write to CD for another machine. My financial software data for my business can be completely backed up with a 3mb compressed file....doable to the web with a broadband connection, painful on a dialup. But already there are sites setup for people to use financial software from the web. My Fedex records and address book are on the web. Photoshop files, if they are for offset printing, put me back in sneaker net . Give me a job that is for the web and I'm back to using web based storage to move 'em around. The thin client with a fast connection isn't as far off as you think, for at least 50% of what I do on a computer. As for backing up your whole drive to the web.....yikes. I'd need FTTH for that one. CDs at $1 a pop are faster and cheaper and can be stored off site and carried around easily. The day of the virtual office has arrived even though it isn't quite as smooth as we'd like. If ATHM gets their act together and gives me a way to integrate everything communications-wise I do on a computer onto a customizable interface instead of having to piece it together, I will be theirs forever.