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...which was maddeningly difficult to get into and inhabited only by wild and woolly creatures. But since e-commerce marched in, cyberspace has looked less like a private Narnia or Wonderland and more like a tourist-infested Disneyland. These days, I've found a a much better way to unlock secret digital worlds: Go on an Easter-egg hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yolk's on Us | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...began to unlock the mysteries of the atom: Max Planck launched quantum physics by discovering that atoms emit bursts of radiation in packets. Also the mysteries of the mind: Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams that year. Marconi was preparing to send radio signals across the Atlantic, the Wright Brothers went to Kitty Hawk to work on their gliders, and an unpromising student named Albert Einstein finally graduated, after some difficulty, from college that year. So much for the boneheaded prediction made the year before by Charles Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office: "Everything that can be invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Mattered And Why | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Nintendo, Tajiri had put a 151st in the software: Mew, a major character in the film. "You had to acquire Mew by interacting," says Tajiri. "Without trading, you can never get Mew." The rumors started flying of a secret monster that only a few people had the key to unlock. More games sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

EgyptAir 990 is showing signs of going the way of TWA 800 - a mysterious disaster whose investigation produces no answers, only forensically guided hypotheses. Hopes that the cockpit voice recorder would unlock the mystery appear to have been dashed Monday, as sources close to the investigation indicated that the tape provided no answers. Evidence from the first "black box" had established that the Boeing 767's engines were turned off at 33,000 feet, precipitating a plunge of 16,000 feet in just 40 seconds before the plane steeply climbed for a mile and a half and then finally plunged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now It's Down to Sifting EgyptAir Wreckage | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...safety provisions at this university. The way I understand it, most students have doors that have to be locked with a key. This is totally unacceptable. Does the university know how much of a student's time this wastes each time he or she has to lock or unlock the door? Seven seconds on average, that's how long (I just timed it); and so if you leave your room 20 times in a day, we're talking on the scale of whole minutes wasted every day. Plus, what if you really need to go to the restroom down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

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