It may be the case that increased worldwide communication through radio, television, the Internet and globalization has reduced the tendency to regional variation.

The vast array of material on spiritual movements, anarchism, libertarian socialism and the Green Movement that is now available on the Internet has been perhaps more influential than any printed book.

The Internet has largely erased the distinction of shareware-most users now download the software directly from the developer's website rather than receiving it from another BBS user ' sharing ' it.

The popularity of Internet cafés has fallen in recent years, as most users prefer to access the Internet from home or work.

The term has become common Internet slang.

If you come up with an innovation that serves, that resonates with customers, the Internet will allow that innovation to spread dramatically faster than any other technology has enabled a new innovation to be adopted in the history of mankind.

Numerous newspapers and pamphlets are published on a regular basis, and one company has begun providing Internet service.

The Big Lebowski ( 1998 ) was a flop on its initial release, yet became a cult classic and has been called " the first cult film of the Internet era.

Since the advent of the Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests regardless of physical location.

The term is of recent use but is not commonly used in psychology, and according to one analyst, " has been coined more on the Internet than in printed form because it does not appear in any previously published, psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary ".

The existence or otherwise of cabals has led to the Internet phenomenon originating on Usenet, " TINC " ( standing for There Is No Cabal ).

The Australian Internet Safety Advisory Body has information about " practical advice on Internet safety, parental control and filters for the protection of children, students and families " that also includes public libraries.

The term has become a conventional means to describe anything associated with the Internet and the diverse Internet culture.

The Dominican Republic has Cable Internet, ADSL, WIMAX, EDGE, EV-DO and UMTS / HSDPA in most parts of the country.

Esperanto is the working language of several non-profit international organizations such as the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, a left-wing cultural association, or Education @ Internet, which has developed from an Esperanto organization ; most others are specifically Esperanto organizations.

In the past much Internet traffic was routed through the U. S. and the UK, but this has changed ; for example, in 2000, 95 % of intra-German Internet communications was routed via the DE-CIX Internet exchange point in Frankfurt.

The Internet, facilitated by the development of search engines, has grown into a common source of information for many people, and provides easy access to reliable original sources and expert opinions, thanks in part to initiatives such as Google Books, MIT's release of its educational materials and the open PubMed Central library of the National Library of Medicine.

Nevertheless, the global Internet traffic has continued its exponential growth, undisturbed, and it is estimated at 21 exabytes per month.

Cities all over the United States sought to become the " next Silicon Valley " by building network-enabled office space to attract Internet entrepreneurs.

With the rise of the Internet, in-canon online material has become more prominent.

The Internet has become not only a major source of data for genealogists, but also of education and communication.

Godwin's law ( also known as Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies or Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies ) is an argument made by Mike Godwin in 1990 that has become an Internet adage.

An RFC that is to become a Standard or part of a Standard begins as an Internet Draft, and is later ( usually after several revisions ) accepted and published by the RFC Editor as a RFC and labeled a Proposed Standard.

In modern society, news media have become the chief purveyor of information and opinion about public affairs ; but the role and status of journalism, along with other forms of mass media, are undergoing changes resulting from the Internet.

There have been claims that college undergraduates have become more used to retrieving information from the Internet than a traditional library.

At the higher layers, the Internet Protocol ( TCP / IP ) has become the standard.

Prior to the civil war, Internet filtering under the Gaddafi regime had become more selective, focusing on a few political opposition Web sites.

Today, the Internet is becoming ( or has become ) the predominant medium for sending letters.

The decision came too late for Netscape however, as Internet Explorer had by then become the dominant web browser in Windows.

Also, it is true for the development of enterprise software applications where the Internet ( HTTP ), databases ( SQL ), and to a moderate degree, service-oriented message buses ( SOA ) have become common interfaces.

Demon Internet introduced extensions to POP3 that allow multiple accounts per domain, and has become known as Standard Dial-up POP3 Service ( SDPS ).

This particular computer was one of the 15 nodes on ARPANET, the computer network that would become the Internet.

They have since become the official record for Internet specifications, protocols, procedures, and events.

Because structured addresses allow a single routing table entry to represent the route to a group of devices, structured addressing ( routing, in the narrow sense ) outperforms unstructured addressing ( bridging ) in large networks, and has become the dominant form of addressing on the Internet, though bridging is still widely used within localized environments.

As the Internet and IP networks become mission critical business tools, there has been increased interest in techniques and methods to monitor the routing posture of networks.

This term was initially coined by members of the various computer underground circles, but has since become commonplace among Internet users and the mass media.

Since 2008, the Internet has become a new field of battle.

Blogs, portals, and wikis become common electronic dissemination methods for professionals, amateurs, and businesses to conduct knowledge management typified by success of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia which launched on January 15, 2001, grew rapidly and became the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet as well as the best known wiki in the world and the largest encyclopedia in the world.

The digitisation of information and the associated pervasiveness of the Internet are facilitating a new intensity in the application of knowledge to economic activity, to the extent that it has become the predominant factor in the creation of wealth.

Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting activity, but are now becoming more commonplace as copyright collectives such as the RIAA are increasingly targeting the file sharing home Internet user.

Meanwhile, the rise of satellite radio services as a major competitor have brought many of the advantages of Internet radio to an increasingly mobile listening public, including lack of censorship, greater choice, a more eclectic approach to format programming, and static-free digital sound quality.

The Internet has been playing an increasingly larger role in punk, specifically in the form of virtual communities and file sharing programs for trading music files.

During the 1990s, and into the early 21st century, however, Leet became increasingly more commonplace on the Internet, and it has spread outside Internet-based communication and into spoken languages.

In the 2000s, the Internet became a mainstay, strengthening its grip on Western society while becoming increasingly available in the developing world.

As the initial TCP / IP network grew to become the Internet during the 1980s, the need for more flexible addressing schemes became increasingly apparent.

Scholarly and commercial exchanges, increasingly communicated via the Internet, have also resulted in an exchange of terminology, including Hmu and A Hmao people identifying as Hmong and, to a lesser extent, Hmong people accepting the designation " Miao ," within the context of China.

Fire alarm systems are increasingly becoming based on Internet Protocol, thus leading to them being accessible via local and wide area networks within organisations.

Increasing efforts to secure Internet communications today involve encryption of all dynamic updates via the public Internet, as these public dynamic DNS services have been abused increasingly to design security breaches.

" The unbounded spread of the Internet in the early 1990s and the consequent rapid growth of high technology culture had made cyberpunk increasingly relevant, and this was a primary motivation for Sony Pictures's decision to fund the project in the tens of millions.

Naturally, governments are responding to the challenges posed by new media technologies by deploying increasingly sophisticated technology of their own ( a notable example being China's attempts to impose control through a state run internet service provider that controls access to the Internet ) but it seems that this will become an ever increasingly difficult task as journalists continue to find new ways to exploit technology and stay one step ahead of the generally slower moving government institutions that attempt to censor them.

As farming declined as an occupation and lifestyle, with large-scale commercial farming gradually replacing the family farm system during the second half of the 20th century, the city appeared increasingly destined to become a retirement and nursing community, until a new migration of younger families was made possible by the Internet, which created opportunities for telecommuting and e-business.

UUNET never took any action based on the complaints, a first sign that spam would become an increasingly common problem on the Internet in the years to follow.

In the late 1990s, Russian counterculture became increasingly popular on the Internet.

Since 1991, preprints have increasingly been distributed electronically on the Internet, rather than as paper copies.

With the advent of Internet IPX clients such as Kali and Kahn, Descent and Descent II were increasingly played over the Internet.

These ideas are increasingly popular in part because such alternative courts and markets can be easily started up on the Internet.

As more commercial and governmental services are being provided online ( e-commerce and e-government ), public libraries increasingly provide Internet access for users who otherwise would not be able to connect to these services.

Broadcasting is increasingly being replaced by the Internet, enabling consumers all over the world the freedom to access their preferred media content more easily and at a more available rate than ever before.

Clarke was concerned that copyright would become increasingly difficult to enforce in the Internet age, the goal of Fairshare was to provide an alternative to copyright as a way to compensate creators.

Negatives and exposure have become foreign concepts to many, as the first digital image in 1920 was the dawn of cheaper equipment, increasingly powerful yet simple software, and the growth of the Internet.