Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the second year that computer users have been able to follow the race via the Internet.
The technology depends on the electronic timing of every runner, made possible by a computer chip that all official entrants attach to their shoes.
"Runners are an audience that are very computer literate to begin with," Furlong says, "The fact that after the race they can dial up and check their splits, to see where they slowed down, what areas [of the course] they needed to work on--they were thrilled with that."
Once the hobby of self-satisfied blue bloods tracing their families back to the Mayflower, genealogy is fast becoming a national obsession--for new parents basking in the glow of family life, baby boomers wrestling with their first intimations of mortality, and various ethnic groups exploring their pride and place...
Root seeking ranks with sex, finance and sports as a leading subject on the Internet. More than 160 million messages flowed last month through RootsWeb www.rootsweb.com) a vast electronic trading post for genealogical information. There are at least seven treemaking computer programs currently selling well, and according to Nielsen/NetRatings, the...