Sure it would be nice to check out the daily specials at the doughnut shop before I leave the house in the morning. But face it, they're not all this useful. Unless, that is, the police start letting us use their computer so our one phone call can be to get online. Of course they don't say when. No one wants to be left out of this stampede.
Big corporations have websites.
The pimply kid next store who just wiped out your bank account by buying bomb supplies online with your credit card has a website. More and more of these sites have webcams. These are stationary cameras which are kept on 24-hours a day so people can log onto a site and watch nothing happen for very long periods of time. Think of it as the Al Gore of the Internet. One which is a big success is the JenniCam, where a young woman goes about her life while grown men fork over their hard-earned cash hoping she'll do, well, the types of things they dream about doing with Jennifer Lopez.