Their role was to telephone goals, corner kicks and throw-ins the instant they happened, and with the broadcast delayed by a minute or less in Asia, bets could be placed and won at the touch of a button.
For an instant, nothing happened, and then the logger began to run.
If you don't need to know about every email or Tweet the very instant it happens, turning off push (where the server pings the phone with new events, keeping in constant contact) will reduce battery drain and data consumption.
That leads to today, where most "instant messaging" happens on smartphones via SMS, iMessage and other popular apps like Facebook Messenger, Facebook-owned Whatsapp, Snapchat, and others.
The instant this happens, immediately turn your attention to the dog and praise and pet them.
At the instant this happens apply slight forward pressure on the yoke to lower the nose.
The SL synchronous programming model is a relaxation of the Esterel synchronous model where the reaction to the absence of a signal within an instant can only happen at the next instant.
If imagining the big bang makes your head ache, what happened an instant later might make it explode.
The dispute between Qihoo and Tencent, the firm behind a popular instant messaging platform QQ, happened in 2010.
