Collaboration Is Evolving From Sharing to Managing
In early 1995, it was big news when Winter Park Construction, Maitland, Fla., launched a home page on the World Wide Web. E-mail already proliferated in most big companies but was primarily for internal communication in many firms. Otherwise, they used America Online, CompuServe or Prodigy for their business e-mail until about 1996. The dial-up connections were so slow9600 bits per second was fairly standard; 14.4 kilobits per second was a luxurythat downloading files, even small ones, was painful and frustrating. Many people just stuck to fax machines, overnight delivery or floppy disks to transfer data.