Word: clicking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which isn't to say that everything went smoothly. To hear many Net investors tell it, personal-computer transactions were more of a drag than a click. Although investors were far more likely to get through to a computer than to a human broker, electronic shops such as Schwab, E*Trade and Waterhouse bogged down when the calls swelled to double the normal traffic. Although Monday's traffic jams may have saved a few investors from selling too fast, Schwab spokesman Tom Taggart conceded that there were "no excuses" for the delays...
...today, except at the level of HTML." The Web's original markup language made it easy for humans to read Websites; XML makes it easy for machines to read them. Think of XML as doing for the Web what Windows and the Mac did for personal computers. When you click on a document on a Windows-based PC, the operating system is smart enough to recognize that you've selected a word-processing document or a spreadsheet or a piece of E-mail, and to launch the appropriate application. XML makes Websites smart enough to tell other machines whether they...
...browser, as anyone who's visited the Net knows, is the software you use to navigate the Web. You fire it up, click your mouse and "go" to a site. Simple. But the newest version of Microsoft's browser--the one that for other reasons got Gates in such hot water with Janet Reno--reverses the relationship: the Web comes to you. After you subscribe to various Web publications by clicking on a box in the new browser, a software robot employed by Microsoft scurries around gathering the latest version of those Web pages and then, periodically, "pushes" the information...
...Foale watched the screen, Lazutkin watched the window and Tsibliyev worked his sticks, Mir grew steadily larger on the TV. Tsibliyev picked up a stopwatch and began to click off blocks of time. Measuring the solar panels of the station as they grew larger against a grid overlying the screen and making some quick calculations with the watch, he could estimate how fast the spacecraft was closing. Judging by Tsibliyev's apparent calm, Foale reckoned things were going well...
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