Word: hookups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...connect to Prodigy for $9.95 a month for five hours and $2.95 for each additional hour, down from a flat $14.95 for unlimited usage before. America Online responded immediately by cutting its hourly charge to $2.95 from $3.50. AOL already was charging $9.95 a month for five hours of hookup time. The other major online provider, CompuServe, charges $8.95 a month for unlimited usage. However, all three services charge extra for various premium services like travel reservations services and certain bulletin boards. Analysts say the price war was initiated by Prodigy because its subscriptions have been stagnant at 1.1 million...
...Tennessee Governor has made a name for himself with a bumper-sticker-friendly attack on Congress: CUT THEIR PAY AND SEND THEM HOME. For the past six months he has also been the host of a monthly TV program on Republican issues relayed around the country by a satellite hookup. It may be no threat to Seinfeld, but it's the kind of show that is making him a name to party insiders...
...another White House photo op, nearly 15,000 youthful volunteers -- most via video hookup -- were sworn into Americorps, the country's new national- service program. The volunteers will perform community-service work in exchange for help with college tuition. The program could expand to as many as 100,000 participants during the next three years...
What makes Dante II truly revolutionary, however, is its four computers and their controlling software. Although the robot was connected by cable to a power generator and transmitter at the crater rim, which let the scientists direct it via a satellite hookup to the control room, Dante II can operate independently at times and did for nearly half the mission, negotiating its own path through the boulders...
...what everybody had assumed was impossible: squeeze a video signal through a telephone wire. The technology, known as asymmetric digital subscriber line, has some drawbacks. It cannot handle live transmissions, and the picture it produces is not as clear as that provided by a well-tuned cable hookup - never mind the high-definition TV signals expected to come on line before the end of the decade. Bellcore researchers say they have already improved the quality of the picture and that with further compression they may be able to accommodate several channels of live video...