The now defunct America Online Online Gaming Forum used to use volunteers selected by applications from its user base.

Online ' chat ' includes web-based applications that allow communication between ( often directly addressed, but anonymous ) users in a multi-user environment.

Online chat includes web-based applications that allow communication-often directly addressed, but anonymous-between users in a multi-user environment.

* BUPERS Online, a single point of entry application for logging into numerous web-based applications maintained by the Naval Personnel Command in Millington, TN

Online applications for ELS are also available.

* In the massively multiplayer online game Eve Online, strontium clathrates, mined from ice asteroids, have various strategic applications.

Online word processor applications are receiving growing attention from students who can forward notes using email, or otherwise make use of collaborative features in these applications and can also download the texts as a file ( txt, rtf ...) in a local computer.

Online transaction processing, or OLTP, refers to a class of systems that facilitate and manage transaction-oriented applications, typically for data entry and retrieval transaction processing.

Individual members additionally have access to Safari Books Online and Books24x7.

Adapting a definition from the Wisconsin Online Resource Center, Robert J. Beck suggests that learning objects have the following key characteristics:

* Online digital film screeners: These digital film screeners have the benefit of letting you send individual copies of your film or a promo to the press, sales agents, distributors etc.

Online versions often have initial rulesets where play is not turn-based ; typically, players in such games may propose rule changes at any time, rather than having to wait for their turn.

Stellar blasts may have killed ancient marine life " Science News Online retrieved February 2, 2002

" Chambers ' Dictionary mentions the contemporary usage of the term " pop art "; Grove Music Online states that the " term pop music ... seems to have been a spin-off from the terms pop art and pop culture, coined slightly earlier, and referring to a whole range of new, often American, media-culture products ".

According to Grove Music Online, " Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures ".

Certain privacy rights have been established in the United States via legislation such as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ( COPPA ), the Gramm – Leach – Bliley Act ( GLB ), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ).

A number of universities have Software Engineering degree programs ;, there were 244 Campus programs, 70 Online programs, 230 Masters-level programs, 41 Doctorate-level programs, and 69 Certificate-level programs in the United States.

The problems of the Hobus supernova being so devastating to other solar systems is addressed in the computer game Star Trek Online, by declaring the blast to have " traveled through subspace ".

Online and offline distinctions have been generalized from computing and telecommunication into the field of human interpersonal relationships.

Assassins have appeared in games like Diablo 2, Ragnarok Online, Lineage II, World of Warcraft, MapleStory, Guild Wars, and Conquer Online.

Faye Mishna, Alan McLuckie, and Michael Saini, co-authors of the Oxford Journal article Real-World Dangers in an Online Reality: A Qualitative Study Examining Online Relationships and Cyber Abuse, reported the results of their research and observation of over 35, 000 individuals between the ages of 6 and 24 who have been or currently are a part of an internet relationship.

* Baen's Bar Online — All e-manuscript submissions for either of the above e-zines have to go through this door into the two sub-forums 1632 Slush or JBU " Universe Slush " conference.

Online shopping allows the buyer to save the time and expense, which would have been spent traveling to the store or mall.

Online education is rapidly increasing, and online doctoral programs have even developed at leading research universities.

Several expansions have been released and the release of Ultima Online: Kingdom Reborn in 2007 brought a new game engine which offers a newer visual experience.

The most successful games after Ultima Online have been EverQuest ( released in March 1999 ), Asheron's Call ( released in November 1999 ), Dark Age of Camelot ( released in October 2001 ), Final Fantasy XI ( released in May 2002 ), World of Warcraft ( released in November 2004 ).

Fans of Ultima Online have reverse-engineered the game to produce server emulators of the original Electronic Arts servers.

Electronic Arts provides the standard clients with which players are allowed to connect to the Ultima Online servers, though some third-party clients have also been made.

On March 12, 2008, BBC News Online reported that " instead of underpinning the mortgage-backed securities market, it seems to have had the opposite effect, giving lenders an opportunity to dump the risky asset " and that Carlyle Capital Corp. " will collapse if, as expected, its lenders seize its remaining assets.

Online websites, like Photo Radar Scam and BantheCams. org, have been created in reaction to the rising use of traffic cameras.

One of the new features will be to allow players to adapt their Champions Online characters to the pen-and-paper game.

* In 2008, IKEA sent an email to their British customers advising that " IKEA Shop Online is open everywhere ", even though this only applied to England and Wales.

Games such as Meridian 59, EverQuest, Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot were routinely called graphical MUDs in their earlier years.

Asia Online also provides tools to edit and create custom machine translation engines with their Language Studio suite of products.

FutureSplash was used by Microsoft in its early work with the Internet ( MSN ), and also by Disney Online for their subscription-based service, Disney's Daily Blast.

In Champions Online, a MMORPG for the PC, a character may use a " retcon " item to reset the statistics and powers of their superhero character.

It combines a large state sector that comprises the ' commanding heights ' of the economy, which are guaranteed their public ownership status by law, with a private sector mainly engaged in commodity production and light industry responsible from anywhere between 33 % ( People's Daily Online 2005 ) to over 70 % of GDP generated in 2005.

Online shareware author communities, like the newsgroup alt. comp. shareware. authors, are often used by software seekers to post their novel software ideas for potential implementation.

Online civil liberties organizations arranged protests against the bill, for example the Black World Wide Web protest which encouraged webmasters to make their sites ' backgrounds black for 48 hours after its passage, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Blue Ribbon Online Free Speech Campaign.

In superhero role-playing games, such as Hero Games ' Champions, Green Ronin Publishing's Mutants and Masterminds, Cryptic Studios ' MMORPG City of Heroes and Champions Online, superheroes are formally organized into categories or archetypes based on their skills and abilities.

However, Keynes & Lapidge in their notes to Asser's Life of King Alfred the Great refer to a " mysterious ' Wulfthryth regina '", and Sean Miller in his Oxford Online DNB article on Æthelred does not mention her.

Dr Anthony Page of the Creative Child Online Magazine claims that children can get used to their diapers and begin to view them as a comfort, and that of the children surveyed, most would rather wear diapers than worry about getting up at night to go to the toilet.

In April 2007, Turbine released their most recent MMORPG, The Lord of the Rings Online.

Online shopping has completely redefined the way people make their buying decisions ; the Internet provides access to a lot of information about a particular product, which can be looked at, evaluated, and comparison-priced at any given time.

Online message boards were populated by large threads about the incident, and a satirical work even stated that CCTV's website was the number one " very erotic very violent " website on the internet, with some users even creating their own toplists of sites which meet these criteria, the " top 8 very erotic very violent sports events " and even identifying things that are yellow as being erotic ( since 黄, huáng, the Mandarin character for " yellow ", also means " erotic ").

Origin was able to make a great deal of money from the monthly fees required to play Ultima Online and many other companies took note and began development of their own massively multiplayer games.

Online communities, such as those that develop in internet forums or Usenet newsgroups, are known for generating their own adages.

In 2006, Electronic Gaming Monthly placed it at # 26 in their " The Greatest 200 Videogames of Their Time " list, which puts it as the second highest-ranking RPG on the list, behind only Phantasy Star Online at # 21.

Online reporting and reviews of events and places within Fremantle are comprehensively covered by a group of local designers on their popular blog, known as ' Love Freo ', and by a local photographer with his daily updated blog Freo's View.

Some of Pravda's Journalists established their own English language online newspaper known as Pravda Online.

On November 30, 2004, Oasys Mobile and The Wall Street Journal released an application that would allow users to access content from the Wall Street Journal Online via their mobile phone.