For example, the BBC website, which had previously been called BBC Online, took on the BBCi brand from 2001, displaying an i-bar across the top of every page, offering a category-based navigation: Categories, TV, Radio, Communicate, Where I Live, A-Z Index, and a search.

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.

* Mermaid Bomber – ( Originally appeared in the game Bomberman Online ) A female water-wielding Bomber who took over the job of the beaten Flame Bomber in episode 17.

In 2003, Wizards of the Coast decided to relieve Leaping Lizard of the responsibility of maintaining Magic Online, and took on updating it themselves with in-house programmers.

In 1998, the Federal Trade Commission took into account the lack of privacy of children on the Internet, which resulted in the creation of the Children Online Privacy Protection Act ( COPPA ).

" Webloggers who were pursuing the story such as Little Green Footballs, Power Line, and Jim Geraghty at National Review Online took this insult and turned it into a variety of humorous self-deprecating descriptions of their form of online activism.

EA eventually bought out Ice Online, took all the key employees and closed down the BBS.

These included several online casino sites which William Hill continues to run under the name WHG. Playtech took a 29 % stake in the new William Hill Online entity.

That printing error aside, Jim Lee took full responsibilities for the series ' delays, explaining that he was involved the DC Universe Online video game, and that Miller's scripts had been written some time earlier.

Most of the competition in Weapons Factory took place in the OGL ( Online Gaming League ) WF ladder.

* ALL TEXAN MUSIC Online Radio Show-showing off ALL Genres of music being made in Texas!

Conservative writers such as John Fund, who later worked for The Wall Street Journal, and David Freddoso, who later worked for National Review Online, started off as contributors to the ENPR.

Online or off, this game rules!

In Disney's Toontown Online, if the player has already attacked a cog and another player joins in and finishes the cog off, the first player still gets the experience points for the damage done to the cog, effectively ensuring that players that partake in the combat get their share of experience points.

* Burnham, R. ( March, 2005 ) Chipping pieces off Mars: Martian craters with rays may be the long-sought sources for the Mars meteorites found on Earth, Astronomy Magazine Online.

Asia Times Online was created early in 1999 as a successor in " publication policy and editorial outlook " to the Hong Kong / Bangkok-based daily printed newspaper Asia Times, owned by Thai media mogul and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy Sondhi Limthongkul, that closed in mid 1997, a week before the devaluation of Thailand's baht kicked off the Asian financial crisis.

CDC later sold off their CYBIS business to University Online, which was a descendant of IMSATT.

In addition, he has also presented Newsbeat's Oddbox video clip show on BBC News and Dragon's Den Online, the online spin off from the Dragons ' Den TV programme .. On 14 September 2012, The Oddbox's final episode was shown on BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat Website.

GEnie was shut down in the late 1980s, although Dragon's Gate was later brought to America Online before it was finally released on its own.

However, with the increase in computing power and Internet connectivity during the late nineties, and the shift of online gaming to the mass market, the term " graphical MUD " fell out of favor, being replaced by MMORPG, Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, a term coined by Richard Garriott in 1997.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

In late August 2007, Sony released an email to customers of its Online Music Store ( Connect ) stating that Sony would shut down the service and begin to phase out the ATRAC codec on any future version of the Walkman portable device.

Netscape became a part of America Online, the Walt Disney Company launched Go. com, IBM and others launched Prodigy, and Excite and @ Home became a part of AT & T during the late 1990s.

* Harris, Jonathan, ' Byzantines in Renaissance Italy ', in Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies – http :// the-orb. net / encyclop / late / laterbyz / harris-ren. html

During the late 90s, Price intended to produce an MMORPG version of the game called Alternate Reality Online or ARO, and teamed with Monolith.

Phantasy Star Online 2 was released in Japan for Windows in July 2012, and is due to be released for iOS and Android in late 2012 and for PlayStation Vita in 2013.

He began publishing on the Internet in the late 1980s and early 90s with appearances in Alsop Review, Blue Moon Review, Web de Sol, X-Connect, eSCENE, Fiction Online, Hawk, Realpoetik, and Zero City.

They developed ESPN. com, ABCNEWS. com, Outside Online, and Mr. Showbiz. com among other groundbreaking sites, setting the standard for much of the commercial Internet explosion of the late 1990s.

While an apology letter was left for the community in the form of a dev blog, he remained an Eve Online developer until late 2008.

The debuts of The Realm Online, Meridian 59 ( the first 3D MMOG ), Ultima Online, Underlight and EverQuest in the late 1990s popularized the MMORPG genre.

* Jonathan Harris, ' Byzantines in Renaissance Italy ', in Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies – http :// the-orb. net / encyclop / late / laterbyz / harris-ren. html

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Ubisoft committed itself to online games by getting behind Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, The Matrix Online, and the European and Chinese operation of EverQuest.

* One of Arnold Dolmetsch's late 19th century fortepianos, from Dolmetsch Online

In late 1999 several other companies began to copy the NetZero free access model including Juno Online Services ( which for years had offered E-mail but not Web for free ), Spinway launched with Yahoo!

The CD was released in late 2004 and has been the top seller on Atlantic Music Online for the last two and a half years.

Zealot Trivia was shut down in January 2001 after Hecklers Online finally disappeared late in 2000.

When Magic Online launched in the summer of 2002, the current set of the time was late Odyssey block.

In late May 2011, Codemasters transferred control of the European Lord of the Rings Online to Turbine, Inc ..

With the unexpected success of the beta phase of Ultima Online ( UO ), Origin moved most of the Ultima IX team to work on that game in late 1996.

According to Online Etymology Dictionary by Douglas Harper, " Polack " meant as " Polish immigrant, person of Polish descent " was used in American English until the late 19th century ( 1879 ) to describe a " Polish person " in a non-offensive way ( 1574 ).

The term " griefing " dates to the late 1990s, when it was used to describe the willfully antisocial behaviors seen in early massively multiplayer online games like Ultima Online and first-person shooters such as Counter-Strike.