[2.5]. The Cook Report, written for the Net savvy and dealing heavily with local and state Net issues, costs $85 for individuals and $350-$650 for corporations. Cook’s e-mail address is cook@cookreport.com; his physical address, 431 Greenway Avenue, Ewing, NJ 08618.
[2.6]. Rates for new customers increased after the Times article on Larry Grant appeared in mid-1994.
[2.7]. Mark Lyon, “Firm gives air freight a lift on Internet,” Air Commerce Special supplement, page 8, distributed with the Journal of Commerce, December 19, 1994.
[2.8]. Of course, on occasion, electronic mail can be delayed for several hours and maybe even longer. So Telnet or the World Wide Web would probably be better in situations where couriers are on tight schedules.
Chapter 3—EntertaiNet: A Few Musings on Net.Rock,
Leonardo da Vinci and Bill Gates, Bianca’s Smut Shack,
and David Letterman in Cyberspace
[3.1]. ISDN means Integrated Services Digital Network, which allows transmissions faster than the 14.4 Kbps and 28.8 Kbps rates so common today.
[3.2]. Barry Walters, “The Internet is a punk rocker now,” San Francisco Examiner, February 27, 1974, page D3 (Style section).
[3.3]. Laurel Taylor, “The speed of sound,” Good Times, August 18, 1994.