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Websurfing without a monitor

Article Abstract:

A possible improvement in the Internet would be to present Web site contents auditorially, which would allow visually impaired people to access Internet information. The Hypertext Markup Language format can be reconfigured to present audio output as well as video.

Author: Raman, T.V
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
Usage, Web sites (World Wide Web), Web sites, Voice I/O equipment, Online searching, Blind, Apparatus for the, Low vision aids

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The Broadest Band

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The properties of fiber optic cables makes them the fastest carrier for data transmission. Reducing the cost of connecting fiber optics to homes will make possible the wide use of the fastest Internet connection available.

Author: Shumate, Paul W., Jr.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
Fiber optic networks, Fibre optic networks

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DSL: Broadband by Phone

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The omnipresence of telephone lines makes them convenient links to the internet. The new technology of digital subscriber lines will allow a fifty-fold increase in the rate of data transmission over the same lines.

Author: Hawley, George T.
Publisher: Scientific American, Inc.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1999
Digital Subscriber Line, DSL (Digital subscriber line), Digital Subscriber Line modems, DSL modems

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Subjects list: Innovations, Internet, United States, Design and construction
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