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

Bruno Latour suggests that the widespread popularity of conspiracy theories in mass culture may be due, in part, to the pervasive presence of Marxist-inspired critical theory and similar ideas in academia since the 1970s.

From the outset, this new republic held that film would be the most ideal propaganda tool for the Soviet Union because of its widespread popularity among the established citizenry of the new land ; Vladimir Lenin, in fact, declared it the most important medium for educating the masses in the ways, means and successes of Communism, a position which was later echoed by Joseph Stalin.

While international marketing of the beer often focuses on its Australian connections, Foster's does not enjoy widespread popularity in Australia.

A recent suggestion is that Mark gained widespread popularity in oral performance, apart from readings from manuscript copies.

Its widespread oral popularity ensured it a place in the written canon.

Other games in the genre to achieve widespread popularity include Carcassonne, Puerto Rico, Ticket to Ride, and Alhambra.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

Due to their popularity in modern media, display-only " nihontō " have become widespread in the sword marketplace.

The words " Nepali " and " Nepalis " are gaining widespread popularity in English usage as opposed to Nepalese, which is an Anglicized version.

By the turn of the century, pop punk had been adopted by the mainstream, as bands such as Green Day and The Offspring brought the genre widespread popularity.

However, the stories found widespread popularity after they were reworked by William Laughead for a logging company's advertising campaign beginning in 1914.

By the time of the First World War, the mass advertising and popularity of the Victor Talking Machine Company's Victrolas ( a line of disc-playing machines characterized by their concealed horns ) was leading to widespread generic use of the word " victrola " for any machine that played discs, which were however still called " phonograph records " or simply " records ", almost never " victrola records ".

This removed the last barrier to widespread popularity of the game.

While many reforms made during the Putin presidency have been generally criticized by Western nations as un-democratic, Putin's leadership over the return of order, stability, and progress has won him widespread popularity in Russia.

Because of their endearing ( if quirky ) personalities and widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture in particular and the British people in general.

Pac-Man ( 1980 ) was the first game to achieve widespread popularity in mainstream culture and the first game character to be popular in his own right.

Its widespread popularity has also contributed to criticism of the grape as a " colonizer " that takes over wine regions at the expense of native grape varieties.

The popularity of Napster was widespread and Fanning was featured on the cover of Time magazine.

The widespread adoption of IP worldwide may have contributed to OSPF's popularity.

The words first came into popular usage among computer users with the increased popularity of bulletin board systems ( BBS ), facilitated by the widespread distribution and implementation of dial-up internet access in the 1970s.

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 ).

Still, widespread popularity with audiences continued to elude him.

Around 1922, Ravel completed his famous orchestral arrangement of Mussorgsky ’ s Pictures at an Exhibition, commissioned by Serge Koussevitzky, which through its widespread popularity brought Ravel great fame and substantial profit.

Glass is in widespread use largely due to the production of glass compositions that are transparent to visible wavelengths of light.

Their primary expertise is in high-end commercial buildings, as it was SOM that led the way to the widespread use of the modern international-style or " glass box " skyscraper.

This period is notable for innovations in metallurgy and the widespread manufacture of the Damascus steel swords and daggers and the production ceramics, glass and metalwork of a high quality were produced without interruption, and enameled glass became another important craft.

In Cuba a widespread custom is to spill a drop or two of rum from one's glass while saying " para los santos " ( for the Saints ).

In view of this, the development of the mold-blowing technique has enabled the speedy production of glass objects in large quantity, thus encouraging the mass production and widespread distribution of glass objects.

Interactionist concepts that have gained widespread usage include definition of the situation, emotion work, impression management, looking glass self, and total institution.

A widespread urban legend holds that snus and other forms of smokeless tobacco contain fragments or particles of glass as an aid to absorbing nicotine into the user's blood.

With the widespread availability of color film in the 1940s the large, cumbersome and fragile glass slides were replaced by individual pieces of 35 mm color film bonded between two thin 2-by-2-inch cardboard frames.

Uranium glass was once made into tableware and household items, but fell out of widespread use when the availability of uranium to most industries was sharply curtailed during the Cold War in the 1940s to 1990s.

Materials used for production have grown from traditional gold and silver to widespread use of surgical steel as well as titanium, glass, several kinds of plastics ( PTFE, tygon, bioplast, nylon, wood, horn, amber, stone, bamboo, silicone, fossilized ivories, tusks and other bones, and even porcelain.

During the Tudor period, the use of glass when building houses was first used, and became widespread.

The hurricane injured at least 52 in Puerto Vallarta and dozens in San Blas from widespread flying glass and other forms of debris, with two people seriously injured due to the hurricane.

When glass mirrors first gained widespread usage in Europe during the 16th century, most were made of an amalgam of tin and mercury, but by the 19th century mirrors were commonly made through a process by which silver was coated onto a glass surface.

The widespread introduction of flat screen televisions in the late 1990s and early 2000s led to the wide availability of large sheets of high-quality glass, used on the front of the panels.

The holiday, a break in printing, was traditionally also the day that papermakers took a break from making paper for the printers, and used up the last of the pulp to make paper for windows, waxed paper being the traditional window material for the yeoman class before the use of glass became more widespread, and after this was done, the pulp vats would be cleaned out for the new fibre, made from rags collected in the spring, and retted ( prepared by rotting ) over the summer.

Modern glass fusing is a widespread hobby but the technique is also gaining popularity in the world of fine art.

Other trials with glass revealed that they were difficult and expensive to make, and there was a widespread opinion that they must be fragile.