Word: bookmarking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have less time now at Harvard to watch football than I did in high school. Sunday afternoons were usually devoted to popcorn and the Patriots. Now, they're earmarked, more often than not, for sleep or the contemplation (but never completion) of my homework assignments. I have learned to bookmark the ESPN SportsZone Web Page and "reload" every 20 minutes during the game to find out the latest score. Dinner-table boasting or teeth-gnashing has replaced reading the Globe's sports section from cover to cover. Harvard makes much of what is going on in "the real world" seem...
...that it is just as easy to bookmark the NPR or New York Times web pages and keep yourself up to date on international events of grave importance to the future of the world. That's true, and I'm sure we all try to do so. There is something about following sports, though, that, besides being a connection to the outside world, is also a release of energy, a fun diversion. When you are tired of that chem problem set or endless Expos revision, why not start a debate about who will win the NCAA basketball championship this year...
...ability: it controls the basic operating system, Windows 95. And that allows Microsoft to invisibly weave some of the internal functions of the desktop computer with its online service. For instance, say you find a cool place on the Microsoft Network or the Internet. You can easily create a bookmark, which looks like a small icon, and drop it onto your computer's desktop. Later, if you're off-line and want to return to the place, just click on the bookmark and Windows 95 fires up the modem and connects to the cool site. To share your discovery...
This thin, user-friendly book has developed into an unwelcome monument to the summer of 1993. It sits at my endtable sometimes; most days, it's buried in the clothesheap on the floor. The bookmark is stuck in page 187, and it's been that way for months...
Most days, the book is buried in my clothesheap on the floor. The bookmark is stuck in page 167, and it's been that way for months...