Surfing the Web — with no connection. Webaroo unveils new service for mobile computer users

On a cold night two years ago, Brad Husick and Rakesh Mathur sat in a rental car near Fairbanks, Alaska, waiting to photograph the aurora borealis. Dressed in parkas and with temperatures dipping below zero, the buddies dreamed up a radical technological idea: What if you could browse thousands of Web pages without being connected to the Internet?

"It was sort of a strange, audacious, crazy question to ask," recalled Husick.

But the two entrepreneurs — who made names for themselves at NetGravity and Junglee — returned to Seattle to make the idea a reality.

Today, Husick and Mathur are introducing Webaroo http://www.webaroo.com/ — a Bellevue company whose free software allows users of laptops and hand-held computers to take portions of the Web with them wherever they wander.

By JOHN COOK
P-I REPORTER

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