No government, let alone an intergovernmental body, can make engineering and economic decisions in lightning-fast Internet time.
But that was long ago and far away on the Internet time horizon.
But just what we were giving up by losing those websites for an entire day, an eternity in internet time?
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Now they are forced to live on Internet time like everyone else.
Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004, which is eons ago in Internet time.
The first is that four years is an eternity in internet time.
But in an era when weekly and monthly magazines can seem hopelessly outpaced by digital delivery, the quarterly functions on its own, supra-Internet time.
Customers could buy Internet time on a card and check email on any number of computers, but most would play the slot machine-style games.
His reliable time sources include the national radio time signal operated by NPL, which provides the time pips on the radio, and internet time servers.
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Internet time via PC and mobile exceeds a combination of offline media, including TV, Radio and Press, in all markets except France, Germany and the Netherlands.
The program not only garnered an active audience of 11 million, but retained that audience's attention for more than 15 minutes on average--that's eons in Internet time.
This maker of big servers doesn't run on "Internet time" and hasn't tagged itself to the Web boom, even as such rivals as Sun Microsystems zip by.
If you want to waste a good hour of Internet time, take a look at some of the discussions at online predictions markets such as InTrade.
Google is hungry--and operating in faster-than-fast Internet time.
The conversations were marked by phrases like "Internet time" and "customer-centric, " but fascinating as they were, no single peril emerged as the next Y2K. Instead, the experts veered from wild blue-sky prophecies to practical predictions of a more granular nature.
Would you want a part of your identity put on the Internet every time you did something dumb?
He would check in with friends by phone and through the Internet from time to time, but was never precise about his movements.
SingTel just announced that he had reached a "non-binding conditional agreement" to take 14.5% of Time Engineering, 20% of Time dotCom and 20% of Time's new Internet Service Provider, Time Online.
Businesses know how important this is, and rely on their brand strategy to convey meaning and impact in the shortest time possible, driven to do this by an Internet society short on time and shorter of attention.
This was a story that had been circulating around the Internet for some time.
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One-time Internet star CMGI is still alive, although its shares now trade for only about 40 cents apiece.
He's also talking about wiring his training camp with cameras to provide real-time Internet coverage of preseason practices to the team's fans.
And discovering new music on the Internet around that time became easier.
The company now says it lays claim to over 50% of all internet radio listening time and adds a new registered user every second on average.
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Lane Merrifeld set it up because he felt that the internet at that time offered little chance for his own children to be social and safe.
Online retail sales have boomed as more people get high-speed internet connections and time-pressed shoppers take advantage of shopping from home or work, according to industry observers.
Rather, follow-up interviews discovered that executives are just too busy making sense of the new economy and the implications of the Internet to have time for these tools.
Time Warner was basically a content distribution company and AOL was a digital service company and putting the two together was intended to put an Internet injection into Time Warner.
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So the United States stands behind the current approach which harnesses the best of governments and private sector and civil society to manage the technical evolution of the Internet in real time.
According to a study done by Arbor Networks in 2009, Google accounted for 6 to 10 percent of all the traffic on the Internet at that time while Facebook accounted for .5 percent.
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