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By: admena

admena — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:05:00 +0000

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By: John D.

John D. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:31:47 +0000

Thomas A. wrote:
“I don’t think anybody thinks of “cyberspace” as a science word, and “waldo”, while great, just isn’t in general use”

This is about scientific use, not general use. The Association of Computing Machinery’s guide to computing literature lists 1,188 professional computer science papers alone referring to waldoes. There are probably at least as many, if not more, engineering papers referring to the term waldoes.

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uberVU - social comments — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:24:40 +0000

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By: jv ocampo

jv ocampo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:57:10 +0000

pls make the nine words more clear,,bigger and meaningful..thats only……… thankss….

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Links (2009-10-14) | Unwohltaeter — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:28:45 +0000

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interactions magazine — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:38:25 +0000

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