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The dawn of the personal web page in the 1990s, and more recently the blog site spawned thousands of cruising websites detailing the adventures of cruising sailors around the world.
DDT and its breakdown products are transported from warmer regions of the world to the Arctic by the phenomenon of global distillation, where they then accumulate in the region's food web.
While the latter part was a boom and bust cycle, the Internet boom is sometimes meant to refer to the steady commercial growth of the Internet with the advent of the world wide web, as exemplified by the first release of the Mosaic web browser in 1993, and continuing through the 1990s.
Since the world has become more based in the framework of technology and its advancement, creating a selective internet that allows only some to surf the web freely is nonsensical according to Elliot.
The rise of the internet made correspondence cheaper and much faster, and the world wide web has made publishing a fanzine as simple as coding a web page.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, opining that " In an ideal world, every web request could be defaulted to HTTPS ", has provided an add-on called HTTPS Everywhere for Mozilla Firefox that enables HTTPS by default for hundreds of frequently used websites.
In 2009 IKEA caused a flap in the graphic design world when it changed the typeface used in its catalogue from Futura to Verdana, expressing a desire to unify its branding between print and web media.
In February 1993, Lysator put up the first web server in Sweden, among the first 10 – 15 in the world.
It is a non-profit web presence dedicated to the pursuit of science and understanding of the small-scale world.
* Peer-to-peer renting web platforms enable people to find and reserve goods, services, or space on the virtual platform, but carry out the actual P2P transaction in the physical world ( for example: emailing a local footwear vendor to reserve for you that comfy pair of slippers which you've always had your eyes on, or contacting a neighbor who has listed their weedwacker for rent ).
Because such duties were often shared with that of the sysadmin prior to the advent of the world wide web, the term sysop is often used more generally to refer to an administrator or moderator, such as a forum administrator, hence the term sysadmin is technically used to distinguish the professional position of a network operator.
He became quite well known in the early days of the world wide web through an easter egg in the Netscape browser: typing " about: jwz " into the address box would take the user to his home page ( a similar trick worked for other Netscape staffers ).
The least of these are the routers, modems, domain name servers, and various other servers necessary to provide us the world wide web.
IKEA caused furor in the graphic design world in 2009 when it changed the typeface used in its catalog from Futura to Verdana, expressing a desire to unify its branding between print and web media.
SGI ran a web site at vrml. sgi. com on which was hosted a string of regular short performances of a character called " Floops " who was a VRML character in a VRML world.
' Science ' consists of a weird, way-out occult concoction of gibberish theory-theology ... unrelated to the real world of facts, technology and inventions, tall buildings and fast cars, airplanes and other Real and Good things in life ; technology is not in any way related to the web of idiotic scientific theory.
* Out My Window, a web documentary about life in high-rise apartments around the world
This means of performance art draws on the collaboration of the web world and tangible reality to conduct a new, modern Happening.
UDDI was written in August 2000, at a time when the authors had a vision of a world in which consumers of web services would be linked up with providers through a public or private dynamic brokerage system.
Enchanting a Disenchanted World, Third Edition examines Disney, malls, cruise lines, Las Vegas, the world wide web, McDonald's, Planet Hollywood, credit cards, and all the other ways we now consume.
ERGO maintains three web sites www. finalexit. org, www. assistedsuicide. org and www. assistedsuicide. org / blog and delivers an internet news digest focusing on right to die issues to subscribers around the world.
Another study, conducted in 2011 on the 350 most popular web sites in the world ( selected by the Alexa index ), 94 percent of websites fail the web standards markup and style sheet validation tests, or apply character encoding improperly.

world and analytics
In May 2008, the Sybase IQ analytics server set a new Guinness World Record by powering the world ’ s largest data warehouse.
* May 2008: Sybase IQ analytics database sets a new Guinness World Record by powering the world ’ s largest data warehouse.

world and one-hit
## Performers who have consistent success in one part of the world but who are known for only one song outside that region are usually considered one-hit wonders in the latter.

world and wonder
I wonder if anyone ever bothered to make the point that when it comes to boats and their motors, Americans excel over any country in the world in the long run.
`` Beneath any feeling he has of the good or the evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all.
No wonder that the Lord, wishing to rescue the world, began his work with Mary.
Each wonder can only be built once in the world, and requires a lot of resources to build, far more than most other city buildings or units.
In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”
The Long Parliament comprised " a set of the greatest geniuses for government, that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause " and whose actions produced an effect, which, at the time, made their country the wonder and admiration of the world, and is still felt and exhibited far beyond the borders of that country, in the progress of reform, and the advancement of popular liberty.
The branch was established to " protect sites of natural wonder " to provide a recreational experience, centred around the idea of the natural world providing rest and spiritual renewal from the urban setting.
William Wordsworth's poetry described the wonder of the natural world, which had formerly been viewed as a threatening place.
His most famous building was the Taj Mahal, now a wonder of the world, which he built out of love for his wife the empress Mumtaz Mahal.
After the travelers leave, the residents briefly wonder what " the world " is, and then continue on with their lives.
He spoke three languages and was so learned that contemporaries called him " the wonder of the world.
He looks at a picture of his family in happier times, and dies having had an epiphany that infuses him with " wonder, joy, and soul-shaking gratitude "— he has finally seen the world as it is.
Been's subsequent sacking became global news, if only because reports of Been's firing quickly became a trending topic on Twitter, leaving people around the world to wonder who exactly Mario Been was.
A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.
The ship's motto, as engraved on its dedication plaque, is a quote from the poem Locksley Hall by Alfred Tennyson: " For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see ; Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.
A promotional expansion for the board game 7 Wonders allows a player to build an eighth wonder of the world ; Mannekin-Pis.
This monument was ranked the seventh wonder of the world by the ancients, not because of its size or strength but because of the beauty of its design and how it was decorated with sculpture or ornaments.
' As a matter of fact, it is all too rare indeed that we have even moderate provocation to mark a wonder of the cinematic world.
The University of California sociologist Fred Davis comments that nostalgia " thrives ... on the rude transitions wrought by such phenomena as war, depression, civil disturbance, and cataclysmic natural disasters – in short, those events that cause masses of people to feel uneasy and to wonder whether the world and their being are quite what they always took them to be.
Times reviewer made this point explicitly: " This air age, when death comes too swiftly for heroism or with no survivors to record it, can still turn with wonder to an age before yesterday when a thousand deaths at sea seemed the very worst the world must suffer.
In 1842, the English poet Lord Alfred Tennyson, published the oft-quoted lines " Locksley Hall ": For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see / Saw a Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be /... / Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer / and the battle-flags were furled / In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.
The heretics have made all kinds of efforts to violate these oaths, to go up by force and to seize sovereignty and freedom by themselves, before the appointed time .... have lured the majority of the Jewish people into awful heresy, the like of which as not been seen since the world was created .... And so it is no wonder that the Lord has lashed out in anger .... And there were also righteous people who perished because of the iniquity of the sinners and corrupters, so great was the wrath.

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