The use of letter " i " prefixes and suffixes to denote information technology or interactivity was very much in vogue at this time, notably with the launch of the iMac and the iPod by Apple Computer ; according to the BBC, the " i " in BBCi stood for " interactivity " as well as " innovation ".

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.

PC style subdirectories were rejected as being too difficult to work with in terms of Block Allocation Maps, then still much in vogue, and which for some time had been the traditional way of inquiring into block availability.

These were lists, prepared by collating observations on the actions of substances one upon another, showing the varying degrees of affinity exhibited by analogous bodies for different reagents, and they retained their vogue for the rest of the century, until displaced by the profounder conceptions introduced by Claude Berthollet.

As English readers, pursuing the vogue for sea stories represented by such writers as G. A. Henty, rediscovered Melville's novels, he experienced a modest revival of popularity in England, though not in the United States.

* Hesiod's Catalogue of Women created a vogue for catalogue poems in the Hellenistic period.

Benjamin West, " The Death of General Wolfe " ( 1770 ), an early example of the vogue for painting scenes from recent history.

A vague meaning at first ; the vogue for the word ( used until late 18th century only in Latin form ) can be traced to the philosophy of Descartes.

His modernized ballad opera, Love in a Village ( 1762 ), began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century.

The phenomenon of refraction of sound in the atmosphere has been known for centuries ; however, beginning in the early 1970s, widespread analysis of this effect came into vogue through the designing of urban highways and noise barriers to address the meteorological effects of bending of sound rays in the lower atmosphere.

Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

" The immediate success of Galland's version with the French public may have been because it coincided with the vogue for contes de fées (" fairy stories ").

During the 1970s and early 1980s until its resurrection, the term was not in vogue, one notable exception being in the lyrics of the song " Drive-In Saturday " by David Bowie ( from his 1973 album Aladdin Sane ) which includes the line " It's a crash course for the ravers.

There was a vogue in Europe at the time for the art of other cultures, especially that of Japan ( Japonism ).

The vogue for Gauguin's work started soon after his death.

In the late 1980s, plainchant achieved a certain vogue as music for relaxation, and several recordings of plainchant became " classical-chart hits ".

" The novel has also been dismissed by a number of literary critics as " merely a sentimental novel ," while critic George Whicher stated in his Literary History of the United States that " Nothing attributable to Mrs. Stowe or her handiwork can account for the novel's enormous vogue ; its author's resources as a purveyor of Sunday-school fiction were not remarkable.

Some of the culture of the late 1970s included what was termed the " Castro clone ", a mode of dress and personal grooming -- tight denim jeans, black or desert sand colored combat boots, tight T-shirt or, often, an Izod crocodile shirt, possibly a red plaid flannel outer shirt, and usually sporting a mustache or full beard — in vogue with the gay male population at the time, and which gave rise to the nickname " Clone Canyon " for the stretch of Castro Street between 18th and Market Streets.

Now, it happens that those whom they called Lutherans were at that time so narrowly watched during the day that they were forced to wait till night to assemble, for the purpose of praying to God, for preaching and receiving the Holy Sacrament ; so that although they d'd frighten nor hurt anybody, the priests, through mockery, made them the successors of those spirits which roam the night ; and thus that name being quite common in the mouth of the populace, to designate the evangelical huguenands in the country of Tourraine and Amboyse, it became in vogue after that enterprise.

In the early 18th century Europeans were first exposed to this type of music and interest would continue to build into the early 19th century when a vogue for Turkish marching bands swept through Europe.

In the Alexandrian and Roman renewed vogue for mystery cults at the turn of the millennium — mystery cults had already existed for almost a millennium — the worship of Horus became widely extended, linked with Isis ( his mother ) and Serapis ( Osiris, his father ).

Along with the Diana of Jorge de Montemayor ( published in the same year ), Daphnis and Chloe helped inaugurate a European vogue for pastoral fiction in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

He tried to destroy the vogue for the pastoral romance by writing a novel of adventure, the Histoire comique de Francion ( first edition in seven volumes, 1623 ; second edition in twelve volumes, 1633 ).

The romance had a great vogue in England through the translation ( c. 1540 ) of John Bourchier, Lord Berners, as Huon of Burdeuxe, through which Shakespeare heard of the French epic.

In a book with the same name, Comte's disciple Frederic Harrison wrote about Stael and her works: " In Delphine a woman, for the first time since the Revolution, reopened the romance of the heart which was in vogue in the century preceding.

In another prose genre, Johan van Heemskerk ( 1597 – 1656 ) was the leading man of a new vogue blown over from France: the romance.

Over the centuries the interpretation of Mary as an ever virgin bride of the Lord who had taken a vow of perpetual chastity spread and was in full vogue by the time of Rupert of Deutz in the 12th century.

The vogue for Vasnetsov's paintings would spread in the 1880s, when he turned to religious subjects and executed a series of icons for Abramtsevo estate of his patron Savva Mamontov.

As the Big Bands fell out of vogue toward the end of World War II, small combos playing boogie-woogie, rhythm and blues, western swing, and honky-tonk formed throughout the United States.

The genre flourished throughout France until around 1660, and was in vogue in England from about 1645 to 1660.

These batchas, or dancing-boys, are a recognised institution throughout the whole of the settled portions of Central Asia, though they are most in vogue in Bokhara and the neighbouring Samarkand.

The piece has Spanish motifs throughout, and launched a period when Spanish-themed music came into vogue.

However, many Jewish liturgical poems rhyme today, because they were written in medieval Europe, where rhymes were in vogue.

Amidst the vogue enjoyed by existentialism and positivism in early 20th century Europe, Adorno advanced a dialectical conception of natural history that critiqued the twin temptations of ontology and empiricism through studies of Kierkegaard and Husserl.

He had been writing plays for ten years when he was sent by his superiors on a mission to the West Indies in 1615 ; returning to Europe in 1617, he resided at the Mercedarian monastery in Madrid, took part in the proceedings of the Academía poetica de Madrid, founded by Sebastian Francisco de Medrano, competed in the literary tournaments then in vogue, and wrote copiously for the stage.

Despite many attempts, neither Hulagu nor his successors were able to form an alliance with Europe, although the 13th century saw a vogue of Mongol culture in the West.

The game continued to be in vogue almost in every corner of Europe in the following century.

This poem of Donelaitis did not differ in literary form from fables, poems, and idylls then in vogue in Germany and Europe in general, nor did it depart from the fashion of writing in imitation of the ancient Greek and Roman poets.

The term itself came into vogue after World War II to describe books and articles that aim to analyze, explain, or divagate on the putative peculiarities of Japanese culture and mentality, above all by comparison with foreign countries, especially Europe and the United States.

The elaborate paisley created on Kashmir shawls became the vogue in Europe for over a century, and it was imitations of these shawls woven in factories at Paisley, Scotland, that gave it the name paisley still commonly used in the United States and Europe.

Although it had fallen out of favor in Europe by 1830, Neoclassicism remained in vogue in the United States until after the American Civil War.

However, amidst the chaos of the Hundred Years War and the various other misfortunes experienced by Europe during the 14th century, relatively little large scale construction occurred and certain elements of the Rayonnant style remained in vogue well in to the next century.