With the 2008 Beijing Olympics freshly behind us, it's time to muse over how the games changed this time around. From a tech perspective, things were monumentally different. Today's Internet allowed people to follow along online and stream the Olympic games — to boot, NBCOlympics.com streamed over 2,200 live hours of games!
I have friends who watched the Olympics only on the Internet, and some who watched it the old-fashioned way — on TV.
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If you've ever had a Maverick moment where you sit in front of your computer and yell: "I feel a need, a need for speed," you aren't alone. Researchers are constantly hypothesizing how they can make our already hasty Internet speeds faster and have recently come to a compelling conclusion. A magnitudinous increase in the speed of the Internet could be produced by slowing parts of it down, according to the BBC.
High-speed telecommunications routes include fibre-optic cables that span vast distances, carrying different streams of information in different channels—each with its own frequency of light.
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Weigh in and tell us if you forgive or not forgive this True Confession.
"I'm addicted to chat rooms. I know I should be ashamed of myself — after all, my hubby is more than loving — but the whole 'stranger' aspect is such a turn on. I'm not sure if this crosses the cheating line so tell me, is talking to other men over the Internet forgivable?"
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Oh boy. I spotted this Internet addiction test because I was um, surfing the Internet, and oh my, is it illuminating. Provided by the Center For Online Addiction, the addiction test is just a quick battery to see if your constant refresh button finger is anything that needs to be taken seriously.
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If Weezer's Pork and Beans Internet meme-athon video was not enough for you, then Dan Meth's Internet People just about gets every single Internet phenomena into his animated music video, with a super appropriate title.
I might even like this a little more than P&B, for its sheer vastness of variety.
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Forewarning: you will NOT, I repeat NOT, be able to get that song out of your head for hours.
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Dear Sugar,
My boyfriend spends all day on the Internet. If I ask him a question while he's checking blogs, he dramatically takes off his headphones, presses pause on whatever music he's listening to, sighs and says "yes?" in a hostile tone. He checks all his favorite sites first thing in the morning, is on them when I get home from work, and is looking at them throughout the day.
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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that popular food porn site, Tastespotting, had been shut down. The food blog world went into shock and began mourning the beloved site. Food Gawker, a copycat site that mimicked Tastespotting in every way, was quickly created to fill the void.
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Financial consulting firm Dillon/Edwards Investments took too long to establish a website on the Internet, so when they finally got around to it, all the good URLs were taken. They didn't get their first-choice web address, but they compromised and got something that'll suffice. No big deal.
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After a two week hiatus, Tastespotting, the internet's favorite place for showcasing food porn, is back. Copycat site Food Gawker will continue to exist as Tastespotting's competition. — Tastespotting
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I started a personal blog about a year ago as a way to keep track of my life post-college. In the beginning, it was more of a casual thing, but over time, and as I gained a few readers it became more serious. Friends and family knew about it, but I never really made it accessible for them.
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