Word: clicked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...straws are about to get fatter. A new wave of modems connected to cable TV and digital phone lines promises to replace today's click-and-crawl Internet with point-and-zoom services that instantly paint Web pages on your PC and rapidly download video clips and sound bites. Some cable companies already promise Internet access at speeds as fast as 3 million bits per second (BPS)--50 to 100 times the rate of standard analog phone-line modems. Not to be outdone, telephone companies plan a massive rollout of high-speed digital subscriber lines...
...beach, in Xena's Warrior Palace. Wandering through these computer-generated spaces are avatars ("avs"), visual markers of a human presence that can be pretty much anything, from a wolfhound to a smiley face, James Dean to your own humble head shot. Click on a spot in the room, and your av reappears there. Type sorry to the guy you landed on, and your contrition appears in a thought balloon above your head...
Along with the click of four-color pens and the occasional bleep of the obstreperous cell phone, the newest sound to be heard in Harvard's lecture halls is the click-clack of knitting needles. While it feels a little absurd to place this activity--formerly associated with hearthside grandmothers--alongside the yo-yo and the hula hoop in the ranks of the truly faddish, it's hard not to notice the conspicuous rise of "chicks who knit...
...Everything seems to be coming together more," sophomore wideout Josh Wilske said. "We had opportunities earlier in the year, but could not make plays. We are starting to click...
...here's how you can keep those pesky cookies away. If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options under your View menu, click the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Cookies subsection and choose "Disable all cookie use." If you use Netscape Navigator, go to Edit Preferences under the Edit menu and choose Advanced, then "Turn all cookies off." But be warned: many sites won't let you in if your browser rejects cookies, and others will harass you with dialogue boxes urging you to accept...