Summary

The window through which you view something frames and colors that thing, affecting your entire perception of it. Look at a landscape through a big, clean window, and then again through a small, dirty, distorted window, and you experience two very different yards.

A person who visits the Net through a slow, tired PC and modem or through inferior software does not perceive the same world that someone else sees through a capable PC and snappy software. When you choose your computer and software, you are defining the character of your Internet experience to come.

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