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Home --> Computers --> Internet

Internet

General information about the Internet.


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        Green bullet = true
        Red bullet = false
        Multiple status bullet = multiple truth values
        Yellow bullet = undetermined
        White bullet = unclassifiable veracity

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Green bullet On April 24, Yahoo! will begin charging an annual fee for its previously-free POP e-mail service.*

Red bullet Yahoo! servers will be down between 15 March and 17 March 2003.

Green bullet Entering a phone number into the Google search engine will return a home address and a map with directions to that address.

Red bullet Microsoft is marketing the iLoo, an Internet-capable portable toilet.

Red bullet Joining Word-of-Mouth.Org will enable you to find out what others are saying about you.

Red bullet Japanese software replaces Microsoft error messages with haiku poetry.

Red bullet Signing up with a "National Do Not E-Mail Registry" will stop you from receiving unwanted e-mail.

Green bullet MSN's MapPoint service displays an unusually long route between two Norwegian cities.

Red bullet According to the revised terms of service for AOL's Instant Messaging (AIM) service, they "have the right to use anything in your IM messages in any way without compensation to you."

Green bullet Your personal information can be obtained through the Zabasearch.com web site.

Red bullet Account claims Dell is selling computers with keyboard loggers installed at the behest of the Department of Homeland Security.

Red bullet The emoticon ("smiley") was invented in 1982 by a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Red bullet Exhortation to refuse an invitation from a named stranger to converse online warns of an attempt to implant a computer virus.

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