Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...InterNIC the victim in this daring switcheroo? Some history: InterNIC started passing out such virtual real estate as an exclusive agreement with the National Science Foundation, back when the Net was strictly for academics and government types...
...more than 2 million copies around the globe. Yet none of his earlier books prepare one for his massive new The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Knopf; 611 pages; $25.95), which digs relentlessly into the buried secrets of Japan's recent past to explain the weightless, desultory disconnections of a virtual society where nothing feels real and nobody really feels...
...Harvard Coop, after its renovation, now carries a virtual plethora of yo-yos," he said...
...best fascistic face. Police are out in force; ID's are checked at doorways; gates to houses are locked. But perhaps the most stinging of the College's package of "added security precautions" is the prohibition of kegs in the Houses. For the administration, the ban represents a virtual guarantee against the kind of campus-wide party that is liable to get out of hand when Harvard students bring along thousands of their prep school friends. And to somewhere near three-quarters of Harvard students, the absence of large parties means the closing off of one of the more promising...
When the Microsoft Network opened its virtual doors in August 1995, most people assumed that the new online service would swamp all comers. MSN put the Internet just a mouse click away on Microsoft's ubiquitous Windows 95 operating system, which seemed to guarantee that the company whose software dominated the desktop would soon dominate the Net as well. How on earth, or in cyberspace, could anyone compete...