Industry Standard: The 10 Stories That Shook the Net

1. THE TRIAL: the Justice Department’s lawsuit against
   Microsoft.
2. THE DOMAIN NAME GAME: the U.S. handed over control of the
   Internet’s naming system to a nonprofit supranational agency.
3. PORTALS IN A STORM: everyone wants to be one.
4. MA CABLE: AT&T wants to be your one-stop telecom provider –
   Net access, long-distance, paging and cable.
5. DISNEY’S WORLD: Finally, Disney gets the Net.
6. NET STOCK MANIA: that high-risk bet could have doubled,
   tripled, quadrupled – maybe even quintupled.
7. AMAZIN’ AMAZON: sold over $300 million in the first nine
   months.
8. INTO THE GREAT WIDE OPEN: “While Microsoft struggles mightily
   to fend off antritrust charges, its dominant position in the
   software world is being challenged by a quiet but dangerous
   development: the coming of age of open-source software.”

   “In rebutting the Justice Department’s antitrust charges,
   Microsoft’s lawyers pointed to Linux as an example of how quickly
   competitors can rise from obscurity.”

9. THE STARR REPORT: an estimated 6 million people were
   immediately on the Net reading the charges.
10. FAREWELL, NETSCAPE: a moment of silence.

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The 10 Stories That Shook the Net.

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