There is some discussion of this feature among the browser user community for Internet Explorer 7, so there is a chance for future data URI coverage across the board.

在Internet Explorer 7的浏览器用户社区中有一些对这个特性的讨论，因此将来有可能Internet Explorer也会支持数据uri。

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The first newsgroups and discussion groups appeared in the early years of the Internet, around 1980, and the bulletin board system allowed topic-related discussion groups from 1990 on.

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