Word: connect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hype and glory surrounding the Net these days, occasional great ideas do make it to market nearly unnoticed. For instance, Homegate, an Internet connection service that quietly launched last week in 760 cities around the globe. Homegate's new software lets travelers connect their PCs to the Net from anywhere with a local phone call. An executive from Anchorage can jack in from Jakarta for about 10[cents] a minute, instead of the $20 a minute it would cost to dial Alaska...
...imagination from the everyday world. "I think that the online context can remove people from a proper understanding of reality and of the proper tests for truth," says Douglas Groothuis, a theologian and author of The Soul in Cyberspace. "How do you verify peoples' identity? How do you connect 'online' with real life...
...once news of the number hit bulletin boards and chat rooms on the service, legions of frustrated subscribers started dialing in without realizing they were running up big bills, assuming that being an 800 number, it would be free. Some AOL members didn't have a choice but to connect to the network through the 800 number. According to representatives at computermaker Packard Bell NEC, thousands of computers were shipped this winter with flawed software which automatically routed users through the access line. Although these people will receive refunds from AOL, the other surprised subscribers may not be so lucky...
...Part of our problem is that we just didn't connect as a team this past Saturday," Gudeman said. "It took us a while to get going...
...fondness for popular culture--cigarette ads, Marilyns and so forth--that kept surfacing in his work in the 1950s, to the annoyance of some American critics. De Kooning was never a "pure" artist, partly because he was not trained to be one. But that was what enabled him to connect with America in a way few avant-garde painters had. He loved the lushness, the grittiness, the obtrusive weirdness of American cultural vernaculars. Though by the end of the '50s, laden with celebrity, he had become the man for younger artists to beat, it is impossible to imagine Robert Rauschenberg...