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Soon, dial-up Internet providers had added hundreds, and then thousands of
local phone numbers all over the United States that enabled nearly every interested person to
have toll-free access to the Internet. However, many developing
countries still did not have direct access to the Internet, but they did
have email. As a result, even into the late 1990's, many people around
the world relied on a system of email servers that sent them web pages upon request.
They "surfed" the Internet by email. As soon as the Internet opened to the public, most new users raced
to the first walled gardens created by early online service providers like CompuServe, Prodigy, and America Online.
Seemingly, wherever an Internet corral was erected, the
cattle of the Internet were drawn to it. Even back then, many
in the general public did not realize that they did not need one
of these companies to get onto the Internet. All they needed to access the larger Internet was a
modem, a phone line, an account with one of the dial-up service providers,
and a local phone number to dial into.
Where Did the "Spam" Term Come From? What Is a Spambot?
Thanks to the internet, spam isn't just a type of canned meat product.
We all deal with spam at some point or another---but what is it, exactly, and why
do we call it that? We explore the history and rationale behind the term.
If you open your email inbox and see dozens (if not hundreds) of
emails you didn't ask for, you're looking at spam.
In tech, "spam" is a term for unwanted, unsolicited mass communications.
While the term is most commonly associated with email, it can also be used to refer to spam comments on blogs and social media, physical junk mail, robocalls,
and more. Whatever the communications medium, spam is almost universally
despised, and it has been since at least 1996, according
to industry surveys. Where Did the "Spam" Term Come From?
It's commonly believed that the "spam" technology
term originated as a reference to a 1970 Monty Python TV comedy
sketch.
Winds were expected to reach about 50 m.p.h., with gusts as high
60 m.p.h., he said. Because the ground is already so saturated, “the
big thing we’re concerned about is trees being blown over,” Mr.
Jones said, adding that officials are less worried that the winds alone will be strong enough to damage homes.
The additional rain also means that widespread flash flooding will continue through Wednesday, Mr.
Jones said, regardless of where exactly the center of the storm is.
The National Hurricane Center said the storm was expected to gradually weaken as it moved northeast, becoming a tropical depression by Wednesday night.
More rain is expected through Friday. Parts of Houston have been inundated by
more than 50 inches, and totals could exceed 20 inches in southern Louisiana,
the National Weather Service reported. Over the past four days, more than a trillion gallons of rain have fallen in Harris County alone - enough
to “run Niagara Falls for 15 days,” Mr. Lindner said, or fill the Houston Astrodome 3,200 times.
You may be surprised to hear that you can actually do that.
But it won't do you any good. New article: How to Prevent
Two or More Words from Being Split into Separate Lines (HTML/CSS).
Sometimes you may want to keep a group of words on a web page together on a single line,
rather than allowing the web browser to break them up and
place them on separate lines if there's no space.
This article shows you the HTML and CSS to accomplish this.
New article: how to get professional email
id for Free to Add an Audio or Music File to a Web Page with BlueGriffon. BlueGriffon has built-in facilities for you to
insert an audio clip or music file into your web page.
This article shows you how to use it. New article: How to Draw a Rectangular Box Around Your Content in BlueGriffon. This article deals with how to use the BlueGriffon web editor to draw lines around text and/or images
on a web page, so as to put them into a box, setting them
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