Word: downloading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there's no real need to get all worked up over these problems at this point. Microsoft has created a patch that it says fixes all three of the security breaches. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/ie/security/update.htm....
RealAudio was the first application of streaming media to be commercially viable on the Internet. Introduced in mid-1995 by Progressive Networks, RealAudio was supposed to bring audio to the Internet without long download waits...
Before this technology, sound files came largely in the form of Windows WAV or Macintosh AV files. Both of these formats had terrific sound quality, but at a high price: since those files were often a megabyte or more in size, it could take minutes to download a 15-second sound bite...
...costs, RealAudio was designed to sacrifice some sound quality for the sake of expediency. By using compression and special client/server software, the delays of the past disappeared. Instead of the Internet sound restricted to short sound clips, multiple-hour programs and even live broadcasts were now possible; you only download as much as you want hear...
...YORK: Hundreds of Internet users looking for free pornography got something else when they tried to download pictures from three U.S. websites: hundreds of dollars in phone charges to a former Soviet republic. The Federal Trade Commission shut down the scam, charging three people and two companies in New York state with false and deceptive advertising. The ring allegedly lured Web surfers to its sites with the promise of free erotic pictures. Those who wanted to see the photographs first had to download special software that, once installed, surreptitiously hijacked the computer's modem. The program disconnected the users from...