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To: Earlie who wrote (105565)	5/30/2001 1:48:10 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I concur, Earlie. I think the next big web push would have to be in the 10 Mbit/s region, for MPEG2 on demand and high quality video telephony (I'm thinking 2010 before this gets going to any useful degree). I have DSL at home and I rarely waste my time with tiny video windows, perhaps once every two weeks. I don't download trailers any more, and I've given up on most radio -- too poor compared to my stereo. I'm not into MP3, so what's left? Shopping, although ironically my wife is now doing mail order by calling the company again rather than using the internet, to some extent, e-mail, web surfing. But even web surfing has become rather boring. I do all my banking and investing online, and that's worthwhile and saves time, but for investment ideas, there's isn't much out there but spam, pimping, and disinformation. I check traffic and road reports. But frankly, if my DSL rate goes up, I'll just drop it, it just barely qualifies as worth the extra $30/month.

To: Earlie who wrote (105565)	5/30/2001 2:06:56 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Re: stocks and porn. Kind of hard to tease out the stocks and porn from this data but Nielsen/Netratings data shows big usage sites are Yahoo, eBay, Amazon.com, Google, Napster, Ask Jeeves, Walt Disney, and the like. 209.249.142.27 Nearly half of Americans buy online, and this is who they buy from: 1. Amazon.com 22,751 15.1 2. eBay* 18,987 14.5 3. BMG.com 4,762 4.3 4. Barnes & Noble 5,948 3.8 5. ColumbiaHouse.com 2,723 3.7 6. Half.com 4,939 3.1 7. JCPenney.com 3,339 3.0 8. Travelocity.com 7,966 2.5 9. CDNow.com 5,295 2.2 10. Southwest.com 3,954 2.0 209.249.142.22