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  2. The Million Dollar Homepage - Wikipedia

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    The Million Dollar Homepage is a website conceived in 2005 by Alex Tew, a student from Wiltshire, England, to raise money for his university education. The home page consists of a million pixels arranged in a 1000 × 1000 pixel grid; the image-based links on it were sold for $ 1 per pixel in 10 × 10 blocks. The purchasers of these pixel blocks ...

  3. List of Plan 9 applications - Wikipedia

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    dial/at, dial/drain, dial/expect, dial/pass – dialer scripting tools. netstat – summarize network connections. replica/changes, replica/pull, replica/push, replica/scan – client–server replica management. ssh, sshnet, scp, aux/sshserve – secure login and file copy from/to Unix or Plan 9. tel, iwhois – look in phone book.

  4. United States color-coded war plans - Wikipedia

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    During the 1920s and 1930s, the United States Armed Forces developed a number of color-coded war plans that outlined potential U.S. strategies for a variety of hypothetical war scenarios. The plans, developed by the Joint Planning Committee (which later became the Joint Chiefs of Staff ), were officially withdrawn in 1939 at the outbreak of ...

  5. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    Category. The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email and Usenet do.

  6. Marshall Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173 billion in 2023) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.

  7. Anaconda Plan - Wikipedia

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    Anaconda Plan. 1861 cartoon map of Scott's plan with caricatures. The Anaconda Plan was a strategy outlined by the Union Army for suppressing the Confederacy at the beginning of the American Civil War. [1] Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, the plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down ...

  8. Plan Dalet - Wikipedia

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    Plan Dalet ( Hebrew: תוכנית ד', Tokhnit dalet " Plan D ") was a Zionist military plan executed in the civil war phase of the 1948 Palestine war for the conquest of territory in Mandatory Palestine in preparation for the establishment of a Jewish state. [1] The plan was requested by the Jewish Agency leader and later first prime minister ...

  9. High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program - Wikipedia

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    The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program ( HAARP) is a University of Alaska Fairbanks program which researches the ionosphere – the highest, ionized part of Earth's atmosphere . The most prominent instrument at HAARP is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high-power radio frequency transmitter facility operating in the high ...