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WON and was
Counter-Strike was originally played online through the WON gaming service, which was shut down in 2004, forcing players to switch to Steam.
World Opponent Network or WON was an online gaming service, created by Sierra Games as the Sierra Internet Gaming System ( SIGS ).
Sierra was purchased by Havas in January 1999 and Cendant Software became Havas Interactive, which came to control WON.
Over the next few years, as Steam was developed and tested, WON continued to serve.
The future of ARC was again uncertain, but Sierra Entertainment bought WON which included ARC.
WON was closed in October 2008.

WON and used
* September 12 — Valve releases the first stable version of Steam, which would replace the WON system that has been used for Counter-Strike and other Valve games a year later.
Just like the games and mods developed by Valve at the time, Gunman Chronicles used WON Server technology for online multiplayer.

WON and by
Due to the closure of WON, part of the player community responded by creating their own WON network, dubbed WON2.
This ' Pure English ' resembles the ' blue-eyed English ' later adopted by the composer Percy Grainger, and sometimes the updates of known Old English words given by David Cowley in ' How We'd Talk if the English had WON in 1066 '
*" KERRY WON OHIO-JUST COUNT THE BALLOTS AT THE BACK OF THE BUS " ( by Greg Palast )
On December 12, 2007, 2 consortia bid for a 25-year license to run the Philippines power grid-privatization of the management of the National Transmission Corporation ( Transco ), the consortium of Monte Oro Grid Resources Corp., led by businessman Enrique Razon, comprising the State Grid Corporation of China ‎, and Calaca High Power Corp., WON in an auction conducted by the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management ( PSALM ) Corp. as it submitted the highest offer of $ 3. 95 billion, for the right to operate TransCo for 25 years, outbidding San Miguel Energy, a unit of San Miguel Corporation ( bid of $ 3. 905 billion ), Dutch firm TPG Aurora BV and Malaysia ’ s TNB Prai Sdn Bhd.
Martin Taylor of Eurogamer awarded the Elite Edition a score of 9 / 10, praising the graphics and level design, and particularly the new multiplayer component, citing efficient, low-lag networking code and singling out the co-operative multiplayer game mode for its effectiveness, although noting that the deathmatch game mode will often be dominated by one player with a fast connection camping in one area of the map, responding negatively to the WON. net multiplayer service and criticizing the ease with which the arrest-based gameplay can break down in a fierce firefight.
But by December 1999, World Opponent Network ( WON ) had acquired ARC and began to run another beta test.
During this time, WON attempted to make ARC a source of income, by adding advertisements into the game interface.
* The Wrestling Observer Newsletter ( shorted to The Observer or WON ), pro-wrestling newsletter written by Dave Meltzer

WON and games
After its shutdown, users who tried to connect to WON in games such as the retail version of Half-Life would receive an error message, for example, claiming that the game client is out of date.

WON and such
Though AJW remained the strongest joshi promotion during this period, featuring stars such as WON Hall of Famers Akira Hokuto, Aja Kong and Manami Toyota, plus unheralded stars Kyoko Inoue, Toshiyo Yamada, Takako Inoue, Mariko Yoshida, Mima Shimoda and others, eventually matters caught up with them.

WON and Homeworld
To play online the player needed to create an account on Homeworld lobby service called WON and download the latest patch ( or version ).

WON and Half-Life
After the shutdown of WON, some players continued to run a patched version of the retail versions of Half-Life or Counter-Strike, which connects to a WON replacement called No-WON ( or WON2 ), and allows users to use the original server browser to connect to Half-Life servers, and their various mods ( including Counter-Strike 1. 5, and a Steamless version of 1. 6 ), much as they could before WON's shutdown.

WON and ARC
This kept ARC going under much the same operation as WON had.

WON and .
On the West Coast, WON BASS has been the main regional circuit in operation since the 1980s Annually, WON BASS conducts the U. S. Open of Bass Fishing at Lake Mead, Nevada which annually pays back nearly $ 500, 000 per event.
* Pregnant Guppy: THE PLANE THAT WON THE SPACE RACE Bloom, Margy.
A more recent improvement on the staged concept from WON is the progressive delivery system, which allows a simpler single stage system to act even better than multiple stages, delivering a smoothly progressive increase in power which is adjustable to suit the user requirements.
In March 2000, Havas Interactive merged WON. net with Prize Central Net to form Flipside. com.
In 2001, Valve acquired WON from Flipside. com and began to implement the Steam system in beta form.
Valve shut down the last of its WON servers on July 31, 2004, officially killing the remnants of WON.

was and used
It was a trick they used to try and conceal their identity when they followed trucks to check their speed.
There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.
He went to Key West every fall and winter and was the only man in town who did not know that his title of `` Commodore '' was never used without irony.
He said, lapsing into the profanity he often used when away from his parents and especially when he was with Charles.
The last point was soon to be included in the `` seditious '' remarks used against him in Parliament.
The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.
His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.
It was going to be hard going all the way because he hadn't written seriously for a while, except for a few stories, was tired of the old method of realismo he had so successfully used in The Sky Is Red.
Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.
This, of course, was the sort of thing that used to take place in Southern cities -- putting white houses of prostitution with colored girls in colored neighborhoods and carrying them on openly.
It was a word he was proud of, a word that meant much to him, and he used it with great pleasure, almost as if it were an exclusive possession, and more: he sensed himself to be very highly educated, four cuts above any of the folks back home.
He had ridden hard from Boston, and he was not used to horseback.
It was just me and Eileen getting drunk together like we used to in the old days, and me staring at her across the table crazy to get my hands on her partly because I wanted to wring her neck because she was so ornery but mostly because she was so wonderful to touch.
Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.
A wall-stabilized high-current arc source was constructed and used to study transition probabilities of atomic hydrogen and oxygen.
It was determined that the hours of sunrise and sunset, respectively, should be used for this purpose.
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.

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