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April 3, 2001 (©CyberAtlas) - Residential DSL users are spending an average of 25 hours per week online. DSL is high speed Internet access using normal telephone lines.

A full 93 percent of the broadband (high speed) users surveyed say that broadband has improved their efficiency in using the Internet and 92 percent of DSL customers are satisfied with their online experience compared to 57 percent when those same customers were using dial-up (56K or slower modem) connections.

The stage is set for higher bandwidth. Once customers experience broadband, it will be difficult for them to revert back or give up the service -- especially as we see the applications that they are using for this become a stronger part of their lives.

According to a survey, consumers would rather sacrifice their coffee (63 percent), newspaper (78 percent), radio (74 percent) and cable TV (59 percent) before giving up their DSL service.

Q. "I have a telephone number and I want to track down the address. I remember that there was a book of "reverse lookup" to do this. Is there anyplace on the WEB that will do this for free?."

Waiting for her photos to be developed, a young girl sang, 'Some day my prints will come'.

Browser
The piece of software that you need to see the web. It translates web files into text, images, sound video, etc, that we humans can understand. Two of the most popular browser brand names are Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

Cursor
The I-beam that flashes in your active application. You place your cursor by moving your mouse, and then clicking once. The cursor is the place where what you type will go. Note that, when you are looking at a web page, your mouse pointer changes from an arrow (picture) to an I-bar (text) to a hand (link) as you move around the web page

Download
To transfer electronic files from a server to your computer. Transfer time depends on the size of the files and the speed of your modem. Technically, every time you go to a website you are "downloading" that website to your computer screen. This term is more often associated with the downloading of pictures, sounds and word processing documents to your computer from another computer.

Hypertext
Also called Linked Text. You can click on Hypertext to go to another page or website.

Icon
In reference to the web and computers, an icon is any, usually small, image that you can click on.

Modem
Modulator/Demodulator. There, now you know where the word comes from. A modem (emphasis on the first syllable; "mowed'em") is the piece of equipment that allows your computer to connect to phone lines, in order to go online.

Online
You are online when your computer is linked, via a modem and phone lines, to a server.

Server
A server is a computer that's got the right software to process your requests for files or web pages. If getting a file or web page takes a long time, it could be due to a busy server, especially if you're on a popular site.

Surfing
A productive activity or a big waste of time, depending on what sites you're visiting. Surfing is the slang for browsing the World Wide Web. (ie what you're doing now)

Upload
To transfer electronic files from your computer to a server. Transfer time depends on the size of the files and the speed of your modem. When you "attach" a picture file to an email, you are "uploading" that file.