Contributors: Jan. 24, 2000

Maryanne Murray Buechner covers consumer technology as an associate editor of TIME DIGITAL and is a reporter for TIME. "How'd They Do?" is her second story for TIME Business Select. In March 1998 she examined the emerging home-networking market. Her own Christmas online experience? "Entirely painless."

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