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Word: serveral (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Server problems brought down eBay's online auctions for more than five hours Monday, making it impossible to post bids or new auction items from roughly 8:30 a.m. EDT to 2 p.m. EDT. The outage affected nearly two million on-going auctions, and is just the latest in a string of service snafus that have marked the length of eBay's hyper-growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: eBay Crash Halts Bidding for Five Hours | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

...write a line of code. And when Word converts your text to HTML, it saves your formatting so that headline-size fonts, italic text and so on show up online pretty much as they appeared on your screen. Likewise, if you save your files to a Web server, co-workers can grab, change and replace them automatically using the same program--Word, Excel, FrontPage--that created them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Web Office | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Where the computers that physically store your website data are located is important. Don't let it be in your store. Most small companies have neither the physical space nor the technical expertise to house a server. Seafood-store owner Hanson balked at a solution that involved setting up bulky computer equipment next to his fish tanks. The costs were prohibitive for a small business: $20,000 to get the system up and running and an additional $800 a month to maintain the site. He ended up settling on Global Store's own servers, with no physical in-store service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Booting Up Your Business | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

There is a danger, through, in reducing 1969 to a symbol.We shouldn't forget that the protests also set into motion a number of important institutional changes whose effects are still felt today. The basic goal of SDS and the protestors was to force the University to server its ties with the military and in particular to eliminate the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program on campus. It is ironic that as this anniversary passes, a bill is before the Undergraduate Council to reverse this hard-won reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering 1969 | 4/8/1999 | See Source »

...this paper, I examine one of Harvard's tiniest but most socially significant genres of literature: the plan file. To those of you unfamiliar with this academic field, please allow me to explain. When someone fingers your account on the Harvard UNIX server, the screen displays the last time and place that you logged on, as well as an optional message--the plan--that greets whoever is fingering you. Most often, these plan files are either blank or filled with a brief witty saying. It's not uncommon, however, to see plan files that push the very envelope...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Deconstructing the Plan File | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

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