"In our house, the computer is a more convenient, easier, cheaper and faster substitute for snail mail, telephone, interoffice envelopes, trips to the mall, grocery shopping, library visits, TV 'news' and well - I guess this covers the general idea. In our house we can do without all of the above-mentioned (other) services far easier than we could do without the Web", Jane Abramowitz writes at news.com on April, 25.