For most web surfers, searching for information is incredibly easy using search engines such as Google. Since the early/mid 90s,when the web started to become a popular place for posting and searching for information, the main type of info was text based. Most search engines would immediately return a list of web sites that had topics regarding your query - even if you were searching only for pictures. Since then the web has exploded and digital images have become commonplace - the Internet is
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What is AIM? AIM is AOL's version of instant messaging application and it allows users to communicate with each other in real time by way of text, voice, and video over the Internet. Features of AIM AIM also has certain features like: Chatroom messaging. Peer-to-peer file sharing with one's buddies. Storing your contact information on AOL's servers, which enables you to keep tabs on up to 1000 friends from any computer that has Internet access. Security I
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Clearing previous Google searches is a straight forward process that can take about one minute to accomplish. It should be noted that unless you're using the Google toolbar, erasing only the history of Google is impossible. However, since people typically only use one search engine predominately, erasing the search history will only affect Google. Erasing Search History in Internet Explorer To erase the history, look for the tools tab. Depending on what version of IE being used, one can determ
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MILNET (Military Network) is the traditional part of ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) that was assigned to be the backbone for the U.S. Department of Defense's unclassified Internet email and web traffic. ARPANET referred to the entire network and later evolved to what is known as the Internet today. MILNET split away from ARPANET in 1983 so that additional security protocols could be added to MILNET, which would be used with sensitive but unclassified U.S. Military/government
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Methods of ICQ password recovery include: Resetting your ICQ password online Recovering stored ICQ passwords ICQ password brute force attack Reset your ICQ Password The easiest way to recover a ICQ password is to go to the ICQ Get a New Password page. To use this page, enter your ICQ number and ICQ will e-mail your ICQ password to an e-mail account associated with your ICQ number. If you no longer have access to the e-mail account(s) associated with the ICQ number, ICQ
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Cybersquatting refers to using, trafficking in or registering a domain name with the intention of taking advantage of the popularity of another company's trademark. These cybersquatters generally register these domains before the target company, thus forcing the latter to buy the domain from them at a higher price. Cybersquatting comes from the term squatting, which describes the act of occupying a land, building or any other property without the knowledge or permission of the owner. In a sen
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An intranet is an internal or restricted access network, it is very similar to the functions of the normal Internet (which is sometimes is referred to as the extranet). Organizations that would like to share applications, documents and data only among themselves can create an intranet usually with ease. While intranets are usually accessed by computers within the intranet, outside users such as off site employees can usually access the intranet using special authentication codes and tools. It
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An Email Extractor is a tool designed to extract email addresses from a variety of different sources, both online and offline. Some possible sources depending on the email extraction tool used, include HTTP protocols, HTTPS protocols, HTML files, and text files on your local disk. Many consider the Email Extractor's ability to extract email addresses from websites over the HTTP protocols to be its most valuable feature, as it can be used to generate lists of email addresses; however, this f
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Googlebot is the web crawler which Google uses to find web pages on the Internet. Googlebot is known by it's referrer tag, which looks like this: Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) The Google AdSense Googlebot The Google AdSense bot is confusingly named and therefore causes frequent confusion as webmasters mistake it for Googlebot. The Google AdSense bot crawls web pages which contain Google AdSense advertisements, in order to determine what advertisements are most relev
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Usenet is a global Internet discussion system. It was created and implemented by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. It comprises of a collection of newsgroups that are classified and structured on the basis of subject. Messages or articles are placed and read by users within these newsgroups. Usenet is considered the predecessor of today’s Internet forums. Usenet is distributed through an informally connected variable server mesh. It does not use the traditional central server setup nor do
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