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To: Alomex who wrote (26306)	3/26/1999 6:23:00 PM
From: EPS	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 42771

Maybe like others around here I've been using e-mail since the early eighties when there were no browsers and the internet was bitnet and darpanet (if I remember correctly!). Sorry I have to agree with Fiondella again: the browser made possible the transition to the privatization of the Internet and in the process changed the world. E-mail for the masses followed.

To: Alomex who wrote (26306)	3/26/1999 10:02:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Just my opinion, but in brief it depends upon what level you view things. The Browser qualifies as a killer app on the internet in that it opened up the Internet to the vast millions who couldn't tell the difference between Unix and a Unicorn. Similar to what the GUI did for ease of PC use versus text based language, the Browser is doing likewise for the internet. It is the reason why NSCP and MSFT where duking it out; why the DOJ in part is going after MSFT, and why in large part, AOL and SUNW now control NSCP's intellectual property and patents.

To: Alomex who wrote (26306)	3/26/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: Paul Fiondella	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

Wrong, the internet existed with e-mail for a generation before the browser and it didn't take off. I think if you check your history you will find email as a common network use in the 1970's! Corporations preferred to send email over private networks. It was the browser and HTML and faster modems that brought the possibility of graphics to the public network --- the internet, and that caused the explosion of personal use, and brought us to where we are today. A killer app is by definition one that everyone must have. For e-commerce, that killer app certainly isn't email. How do you do ecommerce with email anyway? Is that the way Amazon and Ebay and Yahoo make their money? Your thinking is built on an incorrect premise.