By the mid-eighties, Hefner's corporation had closed down its Playboy clubs and resort hotels, but it has since spawned an ambitious "entertainment" division, consisting of Internet programming, pay-per-view and subscription TV, radio, DVDs and home videos.
The millennial division of the internet subsists on a fairly shallow pool of nostalgia: endless posts celebrating variously unremarkable anniversaries, all intended to make reasonably young people feel reasonably old.
That may explain why, in this season for tank tops and bare midriffs, Web surfers are seeking online guidance for trimming down and buffing up, according to the Media Metrix division of the Internet research firm comScore Networks.
At present, solar power is three to five times as expensive as coal, depending on the technology used, said Dan Reicher, director for climate change and energy initiatives at Google.org, the philanthropic division of the Internet company.
Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks, counters that a division of the internet might not be such a bad thing.
For example, China's government is beginning to show interest in Bitcoins (and a division of Chinese Internet giant Baidu recently started accepting Bitcoin payments).
He adds that the move is not a response to Mr Snowden's information, would not lead to a division of the internet, and would not affect the general public.
The bridegroom, 33, is assigned to the rackets division, prosecuting cases of Internet stalking, child pornography and mortgage fraud.
Mr. Rosenblatt, 32, is the senior vice president of the technology division of DoubleClick, the Internet advertising company in New York.
