Word: localitis
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...years ago, there were 10,000 local networks making up the Internet that the hubs used to forward traffic from one local network to another had to know about. About a year ago there were 60,000 and today, there are about...
Instead, there are many decentralized hubs called routers that direct data from one local network on the Internet to another...
Though it would seem that a Harvard victory would give students further reason to rejoice, I strongly doubt that any post-game parties were canceled due to the local team's inconvenient loss. Why didn't Harvard students feel as frustrated by the defeat as Mets fans did after their team lost to the dreaded Yankees this past October? Where were all the exciting fights that the recipe of alcohol and rivalry should foster, as are inevitable on any day the Yankees enter Fenway Park? Why does the Harvard-Yale competition seem so much tamer than other famous rivalries...
...Connectivity promises to transform a way of life that could be mistaken for timeless. Warana's project is providing farmers with access to essential information. The network keeps detailed records of all transactions with local sugar and milk cooperatives; it lists prices of farm produce in the region's agricultural markets (to help farmers decide what to plant or where to sell their produce); and it offers a daily weather forecast...
...network also helps reduce a major anxiety plaguing local farmers. Once a sugarcane crop is ready to harvest, each day's delay reduces its sugar content and the money the farmer can get from a cooperative for his crop. The Pokhale cooperative owns only one harvester, which is usually monopolized by bigger, more influential farmers. But now the harvesting dates for every village and farm are available on the network, and farmers can complain to the cooperative chief if the harvester fails to arrive at the appointed hour. Ghewari, 63, who grows cane in a five-acre field, was quick...