Word: relayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months Herz had been online every day, six hours a day, researching a book she was writing called Surfing on the Internet. She yakked with people on Internet Relay Chat, vamped in simulated worlds known as muds, foundered in E-mail and bombarded her brain with Usenet newsgroups carrying names like alt.alien.visitors. Finally, she couldn't take another bit. "It was the classic information overload, toxic-data syndrome," she says, with more and more messages to read and less and less time to read them. The Internet "stopped looking like some kind of theme park and started looking like...
...Almost nothing that the United States government has revealed about [the] case has been true," Torricelli stated. "At no time did the State Department attempt to relay [information regarding Everado's fate] to the public or Mrs. Harbury...
...most popular talk forum among Harvard students, and college students in general, is Internet Relay Chat (IRC). With hundreds of channels and thousands of users worldwide, conversations about every conceivable topic go on at every hour of the day. Different channels represent "rooms," in which users discuss interests ranging from Buddhism to vampires. IRC is notorious for its addictive qualities; serious users will log on for hours a day, acquiring an entire community of friends on the net. Imagine the Crimson Sports Grills on a Friday night; the net works on the same principle. Serious channel users can always find...
...strategy is not without its pitfalls, however. The NAB's efficiency will depend on how fast it can process home directory requests and relay them back to the requester over the network...
...Tetla has an intimate relationship with its northern neighbor. Nearly 40% of town residents work in the U.S., many leaving families behind. They send back money for satellite-TV dishes, and each year the exiles return for the village fiesta, paying for food, music and shirts for the annual relay race. ``Without them it would be hard to have a fiesta,'' says Reveriano Garcia Garcia, 58, whose five children work as waiters in Queens. The New Yorkers contributed $1,000 for a new basketball court, now the village centerpiece...