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 — 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.
The technology, which stores Web pages on a laptop’s hard drive or a mobile phone’s storage card, could have wide-ranging implications.
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