During 1997, people started referring to something called the World Wide Wait, previously known as the World Wide Web. Why change "Web" to "Wait"? Increases in the number of online users and in the use of graphics and multimedia on Web sites have created a traffic jam on the Information Highway. Cable modems are one possible solution to the Internet traffic jam. Make sure that you read the C/NET news article "Cable Modems Burn Up the Wires," which you can find on the Web at www.cnet.com/Content/Features/Techno/
Cablemodems/index.html. You might take a look at "How a Cable System Works" at www.geocities.com/
SiliconValley/Park/3254/cabletv.htm. You'll also find an encyclopedia of information on the cable TV industry at www.catv.org/index.html.
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