It's the Internet version of a standing ovation.
The anonymous author, writing as TMFTML, has posted a "Dear Internet" version of a Dear John letter, saying, "Our heart hasn't been in it".
Our goal has been far more expansive than simply to create the 21st century internet version of a previous generation's bra-burning protests.
However, I eventually discovered that the letter was an Internet version of a real letter to the editor written to the Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion Ledger on Aug. 23, 2009.
The New England Journal of Medicine, in a rare move prompted by some stunning new research data, released an Internet version of an article and two editorials scheduled to appear in its Nov. 6 issue.
Another start-up, Priceline.com, has patented its Internet version of an ancient auction technique, the name-your-price "reverse" auction, and is suing Microsoft's Expedia.com travel service.
Setting a precedent, Sandra Kanck's pro-euthanasia speech which contained suicide methods was censored from the internet version of Hansard in August 2006 as a result of an upper house motion, with Labor, Family First, Nick Xenophon and Ann Bressington voting for, and the Liberals and SA Greens member Mark Parnell voting against.
"The outcome is moving to an internet version of what retail used to be, where you walk into a store and share with a merchant some of your problems or the thing that you're looking for".
Maybe it began with Twitter hashtags – #teamnadiya for example – bringing people together like a giant internet version of the Harry Potter Sorting Hat, but people like Jackie Heaton and Rob Allen have taken it a step further.
The internet version of the application is hosted on a semi-open platform, since a Microsoft® Windows operating system is hosting an Apache™ HTTP Server web server with installed PHP support and a free edition of Oracle® MySQL, providing a web interface to basically the same, though slightly modified and recompiled, engine as in the desktop version.
To the Editor: Creating an Internet version of the "do not call" list, as you suggest, would require regulation resembling that for the United States' telecommunications market.
