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Even veterans of the post-college singing subculture - which includes Microsoft's Baudboys, named after a modem speed, and NASA's Chromatics - say they notice a Glee factor. The show, they claim, is helping quash a cappella's rap as the province of dorks. For instance, when Vinyl Street, an a cappella group in Somerville, Mass., went out for karaoke on a recent weekend, members told a woman at the next table that they were there as a group - and found themselves a fangirl. "She was all excited," says co-founder Phil Dardeno, 29, a Boston University financial-aid planner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Glee Factor: A Rise in Amateur Singing Groups | 12/9/2009 | See Source »

...instead of 40 years ago. (Fun fact: the first e-mail was sent in 1971 between two Digital PDP-10 computers.) Keep in mind that until the mid-1990s, when e-mail went mainstream, the network environment was very different. Bandwidth was a scarce resource. You had your poky modem and liked it. Which is why e-mail was created in the image of the paper-postal system: tiny squirts of electronic text. (See the 50 best websites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Google Wave: What's All the Fuss About? | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology will discontinue its little-used dial-up internet service starting Sept. 30 in an effort to cut costs. The dial-up service was first offered over 20 years ago, when phone-based modems were considered cutting edge, and has since become something of a relic among Harvard internet users. Current usage has dwindled to an average of two users a day—a level at which FAS IT “can no longer justify the large expense of maintaining the service,” said spokesman Noah S. Selsby...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS IT To Disconnect Dial-Up Service | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...thought it must be possible to have the lights available on demand." Grote got in touch with the local utility company Lemgo and noodled a solution: How about turning on the village lights with a simple telephone call? A few months later, Lemgo had developed a special modem and software and, together with Grote, launched Dial4Light - billed as the first project of its kind in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Bright Idea | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...thought it must be possible to have the lights available on demand." Dieter got in touch with the local utility company Lemgo and together they came up with a solution: How about turning on the village lights with a simple telephone call? Lemgo developed a special modem and software to make it possible, and Dial4Light was born. (See pictures of the odyssey of the cell phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Bright Idea: Street Lighting on Demand | 7/1/2009 | See Source »

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