Word: nodes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fruit of all. Especially if they're running Windows. For reasons known only to itself, Microsoft makes its operating system default to friendly mode, entirely open to network sharing. This means when you hook your brand-new PC up to your brand-new cable modem, you unwittingly become a node on a massive network whose members can come and look around your hard drive, perhaps download your financial records...
...when Foale entered the spherical transfer node that connects the main module to Soyuz and the four other modules, he felt and heard a sudden, sickening thud. Somewhere on the outside of one of the station's modules, Progress had hit fast and hard. An instant later, a deafening Klaxon went off, a signal that Mir's electronic brain was also aware of the impact...
...crew had to find a way to replace the air that had been lost. While Foale remained behind in the transfer node to make sure the bolts holding the sphere together hadn't been damaged by the collision, Lazutkin unstowed a large tank of pure oxygen, wrestled it into the main module and, with Tsibliyev's help, opened its nozzle. Instantly, a loud, sibilant hiss echoed through the ship. Off in the node, Foale heard the noise and, knowing the difference between the sound of air entering a spacecraft and the sound of air leaving it, heaved a relieved sigh...
...system could go global. "This initial document didn't go down well," says Berners-Lee. But he persisted and won the indulgence of his boss, who okayed the purchase of a NeXT computer. Sitting on Berners-Lee's desk, it would become the first Web content "server," the first node in this global brain. In collaboration with colleagues, Berners-Lee developed the three technical keystones of the Web: the language for encoding documents (HTML, hypertext markup language); the system for linking documents (HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol); and the www.whatever system for addressing documents (URL, universal resource locator...
HOSPITALIZED. JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, 67, head of the Chicago Roman Catholic diocese; for the removal of malignant tumors in the liver and pancreas as well as a cancerous kidney and lymph node; in Maywood, Illinois. Bernardin faces extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments...