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We've forgotten about this now, but SLIP/PPP ' mostly PPP ' is what got everyone on the Internet via dial-up modems back when broadband was an obscure industry term.
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A Unix knockoff that is the world's largest hobby project for coders. A select few are among the world's best.
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They made the fancy stuff possible by pulling graphics data away from the CPU and eventually gave rise to separate graphics cards.
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You send the instructions to the remote computer and let it figure out how to render the layout, dummy! PCI SLOTS: Rumors are unconfirmed that the national boost in technology productivity came from the thousands of admins who no longer had to fiddle with the IRQ settings each time they installed a new peripheral.
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It made the Web work for the rest of us.
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Electronic mail goes back to the 1960s, but it really started taking off with Web use. By 1997, the volume of business e-mail surpassed that of regular mail.
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Lawyers and other control freaks love it! Also, it was perhaps the first truly effective document- sharing technology.
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Lit up the Web with images.
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32-bit pre-emptive multitasking made possible everything that has come along for the desktop since ' including the graphical Internet and Mac OS X
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The universal administrative assistant (mostly in the form of Microsoft Outlook/Exchange) for the cubicled middle rank ' and a nursemaid for their bosses.
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The newest set of protocols makes tomorrow's online dreams possible
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A wiki is a Web page that can be viewed and modified by anybody with a Web browser and access to the Internet.
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Write once, run all over the Web.
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The reliable workhorse of the Web
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A file format that pretty much leveled an entire industry ' and movies are next.
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Cable and Digital Subscriber Lines start to make an appearance in homes, and telecommuting becomes a real option.
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We'd call it the portal to the Web, except portals aren't this easy to use. The search bar is rapidly becoming the sippy cup of culture ' with more than partial thanks to Wikipedia, Google's query shortstop.
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Data that tells us what our data is. But this data is in brackets, so we know what it means, more or less.
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The network computer Libre! BLACKBERRY: Life support for your government executive, with its push technology making the difference.
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the facility that allows multiple operating systems to simultaneously share x86 processor resources in a safe and efficient manner
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Telneting securely, saving untold fortunes in KVM switches.
