As the use of the Internet became more widespread in the mid to late 1990s, traditional BBSes rapidly faded in popularity.

BBSes rapidly declined in popularity thereafter, and were replaced by systems using the Internet for connectivity.

With the rising popularity of the Internet, there is a current vogue in China for coining English transliterations, for example, 粉丝 ／ 粉絲 fěnsī " fans ", 黑客 hēikè " hacker " ( lit.

Generally, this type of semi-institutionalized humor starts as a specific group's in-joke, and grows until it reaches a significant portion of Internet users, gaining popularity, " rules " and mythos.

Once the concept of broadband Internet access came to be associated with data rates incoming to the customer at 256 kbit / s or more, and alternatives like ADSL grew in popularity, the consumer market for BRI did not develop.

In Japan, the number of ISDN subscribers dwindled as alternative technologies such as ADSL, cable Internet access, and fiber to the home gained greater popularity.

Because of its popularity and recognition, the campus was visited by President Barack Obama on February 10, 2011, where he praised the development in wireless technology and promoted a National Wireless Initiative to bring high-speed Internet to 98 % of the U. S. by 2016.

The high data speeds of UMTS are now most often utilised for Internet access: experience in Japan and elsewhere has shown that user demand for video calls is not high, and telco-provided audio / video content has declined in popularity in favour of high-speed access to the World Wide Web — either directly on a handset or connected to a computer via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Infrared or USB.

* Due to the major success of broadband Internet connections, Voice over IP begins to gain popularity as a replacement for traditional telephone lines.

Because of the popularity of the Internet, many desirable domain names are already assigned and users must search for other acceptable names, using Web-based search features, or WHOIS and dig operating system tools.

The enduring, widespread popularity of the theorem was noted in the introduction to a 2001 paper, " Monkeys, Typewriters and Networks: The Internet in the Light of the Theory of Accidental Excellence " ( Hoffmann and Hofmann ).

As telephone-based 56 kbit / s modems began losing popularity, some Internet Service Providers such as TurboUSA, Netzero, CdotFree, TOAST. net, and Earthlink started using pre-compression to increase the throughput and maintain their customer base.

In middle of the decade due to the popularity which the hi-speed internet and VoIP Technolegies gained amongst the Israelis, at first Israelis were able to conduct international conversations free of charge or at lower rates through the Internet due to the link between VoIP networks such as Skype and Vonage to the traditional telephony networks in Israel and abroad.

Texas Hold ' em's popularity surged in the 2000s due to exposure on television, the Internet and popular literature.

As a result of its popularity, commercial Internet service providers sprang up to offer access to the Internet to anyone willing to pay for the service, mainly to those who missed their university accounts.

Interest in Old-time radio ( OTR ) increased with programs traded and collected on reel-to-reel tapes, cassettes and CDs and Internet downloads, as well as the popularity of podcasts.

After the video gained popularity on the Internet, Kuehnlein was suspended without pay.

The town has gained a certain popularity due to its name, a coincidence with Leetspeak, a common Internet sociolect.

And with the gaining popularity of the Internet, websites such as Toy News International would soon offer information on upcoming collectible figures and merchandise.

As the Internet gained popularity in the 1990s, NFL developed and refined its web site to extend opportunities for students previously marginalized by geographic or fiscal constraints.

The widespread popularity of the Internet in the late 1990s / early 2000s helped the New Wave of British Heavy Metal fans to communicate again and some NWOBHM bands experienced a minor revival.

However, due to the rise of the Internet and the ability to conduct evaluations online with surveys, Multi-rater feedback use steadily increased in popularity.

The district's popularity has exploded since the opening of BTAP and 798 Space in 2002, with scores of galleries, lofts, publishing firms, design companies, high-end tailor shops, and cafés and fancy restaurants setting up.

This carbine ( under $140, about $15 more for a deluxe grade ) has an 18-1/2-inch barrel and was obviously inspired by the popularity of last year's Model 760 pump with a short-barrel.

The impression has nevertheless been given during these three days, despite Mr. Rusk's personal popularity, that the United States delegation came to Oslo in a somewhat tentative and exploratory frame of mind, more ready to listen and learn than to enunciate firm policy on a global scale with detailed application to individual danger spots.

The popularity of CCD imaging among amateurs has led to large numbers of web sites being written by individuals about their images and equipment.

Because CCD imagers are linear, image processing may be used to subtract away the effects of light pollution, which has increased the popularity of astrophotography in urban areas.

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

" Amazing Grace " saw a resurgence in popularity in the U. S. during the 1960s and has been recorded thousands of times during and since the 20th century, occasionally appearing on popular music charts.

Though wine ( vino ) has traditionally been the most popular alcoholic beverage in Argentina, beer ( cerveza ; the Italian birra is frequently used ) in recent decades has competed with wine in popularity.

His music today has regained some modest popularity via recordings.

Today the language has declined in popularity along with the Amiga computer for which it was written.

This benefit has contributed to its popularity in cryptographic software.

An extension that has gained significant popularity since 2003 is Satisfiability modulo theories ( SMT ) that can enrich CNF formulas with linear constraints, arrays, all-different constraints, uninterpreted functions, etc.

Maland has identified it as triggering Chaplin's decline in popularity, and writes, " Henceforth, no movie fan would ever be able to separate the dimension of politics from the star image of Charles Spencer Chaplin.

Recently the use of recycled materials as concrete ingredients has been gaining popularity because of increasingly stringent environmental legislation.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

With the growing importance and influence of China's economy globally, Mandarin instruction is gaining popularity in schools in the USA, and has become an increasingly popular subject of study amongst the young in the Western world, as in the UK.

In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.

Vermicomposting has gained popularity in both these industrial and domestic settings because, as compared to conventional composting, it provides a way to compost organic materials more quickly ( as defined by a higher rate of carbon-to-nitrogen ratio increase ) and to attain products that have lower salinity levels that are therefore more beneficial to plant mediums.

The popularity of the chupacabras has resulted in it being featured in several types of media.

The popularity of curry houses in Britain has encouraged a number of publications aiming to show how the curry house cuisine, as opposed to authentic Indian cuisine, can be recreated at home.

Ditka's success and popularity in Chicago has led him to land analyst roles on various American football pregame shows.

By far, the best known representation is the animated Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, whose popularity has spread the three-syllable Spanish pronunciation of the word coyote throughout English-speaking North America.

Cheerleading's increasing popularity in recent decades has made it a prominent feature in high-school themed movies and television shows.

The popularity of websites that allow members to upload their own movies for others to view has created a growing community of amateur computer animators.