Glenn Fleishman
Glenn Fleishman writes about the past, present, and future. He’s been a technology journalist since the 1990s, contributing to TidBITS since 1993, and to publications like the Economist, Fast Company, the New York Times, Fortune, and many others (many of them long out of business). He’s also a printing historian, specializing in processes used between original artwork and typeset material and the final printed page, concluding flong. Glenn writes the Mac 911 column for Macworld, was the editor and publisher of The Magazine, and regularly appears on technology and nerd-culture podcasts.
Question: What's the difference between .htm and .html? Chuck Heath asks, "Does the difference imply a different OS? Many Macintosh-related URLs end with .html, but other .html URLs are clearly non-Macintosh
Question: What's the word on dual-line modems? Don Wendel wrote in wondering about dual-line modem technology.
Answer: Dual-line modems use two phone lines and two internal modems to double the speed of your connection, theoretically approaching that of ISDN service
InstantMessageGram for Mr. Mongo! In "You've Got Call Waiting" in NetBITS-011, I failed to mention one of the most popular instant messaging tools - ICQ - which claims 5.4 million subscribers and over a million daily users
Search Me -- In response to last week's FAQtoid explaining how a search engine would work on an individual site, several readers pointed out that a little ingenuity enables you to co-opt a Web search engine to focus in on your Web site
Mea Culpa -- It may be just the end-of-the-year race to the finish, but we've been making more mistakes than we find acceptable, and for that we apologize
More Offline -- More readers wrote in with suggestions of how to store Web pages for later offline viewing and printing.
Adam Rosen recommends DataViz's Web Buddy, which works much like Web Whacker
Suddenly instant messaging is everywhere. The ability to send tiny messages instantly to another person or small group has been available on America Online for many years
Question: What's the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web? Michael Battig writes from Glenn's home town of Eugene, Oregon, with that surprisingly common question.
Answer: The Internet is a set of networks that exchange data with each other using a standard set of protocols - languages that each machine can speak
Question: How do I make a Web site searchable? Beverley Neff writes: "I was on a Web page recently that had a search form to search that Web site
Testing 56K -- Looking to buy a 56K modem? Before you purchase, there is something you can do to find out whether or not your current phone line will support a faster speed (see Speed Jockeys on the Internet: Flying at 56K in NetBITS-008)
Call for Writers -- As we've mentioned before, we enjoy working with both new and experienced writers. The five of us who represent the core staff of NetBITS all produce pieces and write FAQtoids, but we enjoy featuring other voices and areas of expertise
Printing to Files -- We received a huge sheaf of suggestions on how to store a Web page for later printing or viewing, which we cover in Save Me from the Web, below
In response to our FAQtoid on how to save a Web page for later printing or viewing (see NetBITS-009), we got a pile of responses recommending techniques and software
Question: Who pays for the Internet? Several readers, including Max Hahto and Yves Dussault , have written to ask how the Internet is paid for. That is, since the Internet is worldwide, there must be long distance or other charges involved in moving data from your dial-up or permanent connections to other locations
Hiatus for American Thanksgiving -- We'll be skipping what would have been our 27-Nov-97 issue in favor of turkey for some of us, Tofurky(tm) for others, and gluten-free corn mush for Glenn