Word: url
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when you highlight something in telnet (like a Web URL) it will automatically copy it for you (so you don't have to go to Edit...Copy). Also, if you want to paste some text into your telnet window (say you're copying something into an e-mail message) don't bother with Edit....Paste, just click the middle mouse button...
...home. Apparently Baldwin isn't quite sold on e-commerce: "New York is so convenient - you can call your local pet store and get the bone, get the collar, get the food." What about ordering from Pets.com? "I haven't seen their catalog yet." Give that URL a whirl, Billy. MORE...
Even at his most strident, Mahbubani writes with a diplomat's charm, gleefully untangling political knots into simple threads. The book has a special force because it comes from a man who is a prototype 21st century leader--he has his own URL--and a leading candidate to one day succeed Kofi Annan as U.N. Secretary-General. That pedigree is surely responsible for some of his buzz, but the ambassador's book is anything but a faddish flash...
...Mark-up Language)--that has come to be the lingua franca of the Web; it's the way Web-content creators put those little colored, underlined links in their text, add images and so on. He designed an addressing scheme that gave each Web page a unique location, or url (universal resource locator). And he hacked a set of rules that permitted these documents to be linked together on computers across the Internet. He called that set of rules HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol...
...meager. But as cyberspace grows, its ultra-narrowcasting will serve even meager appetites. So next time you scorn a lover or a friend, make sure she doesn't have Web-authoring software. Just imagine--your own personal Linda Tripp, mad as ever and now equipped with a URL...