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The 1998 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVIII Olympic Winter Games (Japanese: 第18回オリンピック冬季競技大会, Hepburn: Dai Jūhachi-kai Orinpikku Tōkikyōgi Taikai) and commonly known as Nagano 1998 (Japanese: 長野1998), was a winter multi-sport event held from 7 to 22 February 1998, mainly in Nagano, Nagano ...
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- Coexistence with Nature, (Japanese: 自然との共存, Shizen to no Kyōzon)
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The 1980s was the first decade where the Internet resembled something like it does in the modern day. But it wasn’t capable of anywhere near what it is now. Reckon dial-up is old? In the early ‘80s, the Internet didn’t even have that. When it first started to connect computers, it was powered by a network called USENET. This still relied on phone m...
Dial-up internet took off in the 1990s, and the first commercial internet service providers (ISPs) started offering internet connections to regular households. AOL and other web browsers’ CD-ROMs were being sold in shops, letting you install and use their web software for a 30-day free trial (before being charged by the hour). Chat rooms sprung up ...
Broadband breathed new life into the Internet in the early 2000s by allowing the signal in one line to be split between the telephone and the Internet. This meant users could be online and make phone calls at the same time. It was branded the ‘always on’ internet service. It also came with much faster connection speeds, making it a lot easier to br...
The 2010s saw the Internet become even more essential to everyday life. It helped the web transition from an obscure place for entertainment into a mainstream blockbuster TV and movie platform, thanks to streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. It allowed anyone to create and upload their own high-quality content and build loyal dig...
Just when we thought we were hitting peak internet, the world was hit with the Covid-19 pandemic. Millions of people had to start working and learning from home, at almost no notice. This put immediate pressure on everyone’s home broadband, as suddenly we were staying in and using the Internet throughout the whole workday too. It highlighted that, ...
The Internet's takeover of the global communication landscape was rapid in historical terms: it only communicated 1% of the information flowing through two-way telecommunications networks in the year 1993, 51% by 2000, and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.
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Bobsled: women's competition in the two-person discipline. Biathlon: men's 12.5km pursuit and a women's 10km pursuit. Cross Country: men's and women's sprint free. Nordic Combined: an individual sprint event that consists of ski jumping from the large hill and a 7.5km cross-country race.
Apr 19, 2024 · Seoul. Seoul 1988 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Seoul that took place September 17–October 2, 1988. The Seoul Games were the 21st occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. After boycotts had marred the previous two Olympiads, political problems threatened to return to center stage at the 1988 Games. Violent student riots took place ...
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The 1988 Summer Olympics (Korean: 1988년 하계 올림픽), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad (제24회 올림픽경기대회) and commonly known as Seoul 1988 (서울 1988), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represented at the games by a total of 8,391 athletes (6,197 men and 2,194 women ...
Overview. It had been 26 years since the Olympic Winter Games had been held in the Orient, those also in Japan at Sapporo on the northern island of Hokkaido. Nagano had been an “upset” choice over the more favored selections of Salt Lake City and Östersund. But the Japanese typically put on a wonderful show. And it was much quieter in ...
