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This Issue: Atlantic.Net@Home • Upgrade Your Modem • Valentine's Day Worldwide • Protect Your Identity • Only at Surf.Atlantic.Net • Make V-Day Special • Tech Terms for Non-techies Atlantic.Net@Work • Custom voice, data solutions Contact Us Become an Atlantic.Net Agent If you're looking for a career opportunity or the chance to supplement your income, consider Atlantic.Net's Agent Program. We bring together our experience with Internet products and customer service and combine that with your sales expertise to deliver solutions to businesses. It's the ultimate win-win-win for everyone! We're so confident you can reach your goals through the Atlantic.Net Agent Program that there's no startup fee to cover our investment. Becoming an agent is absolutely FREE, and there's no obligation on your part. Still interested? We thought so. For more information about Atlantic.Net's Agent Program, call an Agent Relations representative at 1-800-422-2936 ext. 6163 or e-mail us at isr@atlantic.net.
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Your Modem to V92 Thinking of buying a new modem? Why not upgrade to a V92, like this Zoom V92/V44 USB External controllerless fax modems available from Amazon.com. For $70 or less, not only will you speed up to 55K, but the V92 standard allows you to put the Internet on hold while you talk on the phone (if you subscribe to a service such as Catch-A-Call), and you'll be ready for the latest in dial-up technology. Feb. 14, 2002: Valentine's Day Around the World Think Americans have a lip-lock on this lovers' holiday? Think again. Check out these Valentine's Day traditions from other countries. • Korea - On Feb. 14, women give candies to their boyfriends. On March 14, known as "White Day", men give chocolates, and sometimes profess their love, to their girlfriends. On April 14, those without mates celebrate "Black Day" by eating Jajang noodles with their friends. • Great Britain - To dream of their future husbands, women used to pin bay leaves to their pillows and eat eggs with salt replacing the removed yolks. They also wrote several men's names on slips of paper, wrapped them in clay, and dropped them into the water, believing their future husband's name would be the one to pop up first. • Denmark - Sweethearts swap poems and candy snowdrops. Sometimes they send laughable notes called "gaekkebrev," signing them using only dots. If a recipient correctly guesses who sent the note, he or she also receives a candy egg at Easter time. • Italy - Here, many couples get engaged on Valentine's Day. Some shops sell gifts such as china baskets and cups filled with Valentine candies and tied with ribbon. • France - Traditionally, the first young man seen by a girl on the morning of Valentine's day became her boyfriend, called a cavalier or valentin for the year. At year end, engagement usually followed. • Scotland - Couples exchange Lover's Knots made of ribbon or paper. • Wales - Spoons are given to women as engagement gifts. • Germany - Women plant onions in several pots on Valentine's Day. Each onion is given a man's name and put near the fireplace. The first onion to sprout will be a woman's intended. For more Valentine's fun, visit these links: Learn to say I love you in more than 80 languages Valentine's Day superstitions Make a tissue paper valentine Surfin' Safari In the spirit of Consumer Protection Month, we've put together some links to help you protect yourself from the fraudulent use of your name and personal information. • Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. Order your credit report regularly from all three of these major credit bureaus. Report, investigate, and resolve any irregularities. • Department of Justice. Learn more about how to avoid becoming a victim of identity theft. • Consumer Protection Agency. Learn all about actual cases of phone, mail, and Internet scams. One example: If you receive a request from any vendor stating that your "account information needs to be updated" or "the credit card you signed up with is invalid or expired and the information needs to be reentered to keep your account active," it may be a scam. Do not respond without first contacting the vendor yourself. • Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Take the identity theft test to see if you are at risk. Only at Surf.Atlantic.Net • Virus Alerts - Are you a victim of the latest e-mail virus? We can help you clean up and avoid getting hit again. See a list of the 10 latest viruses and learn how to avoid them. • Surf's Up Archives - Did you miss an issue of Surf's Up or just want to read something again? Take a look at back issues of the Surf's Up newsletter.  Dazzle
Your Darling with Gifts from the Surf
ShopMake this Valentine's Day exceptionally special for the loved ones in your life. • With the Talking Photo Album from Brookstone, you can record words of love to go with pictures from a romantic getaway, or whisper sweet nothings to be replayed when you're apart.  •
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assorted chocolate-dipped strawberries.You'll find all these romantic gifts and more at the Surf Shop! Just visit a department below to learn more. Tech Tips: A Few Tech Terms You May or May Not Know Unless you're in the biz, it's hard to keep up with all the buzz words working their way around the Net. So we've assembled several basic terms you should know. • Browser - Short for Web browser, a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Both are graphical browsers, which means that they can display graphics as well as text. • Internet - A global network connecting millions of computers. More than 100 countries are linked into exchanges of information. The Internet is decentralized by design. Each Internet computer, called a host, is an independent member of the global Internet community. • DSL - Digital subscriber lines use sophisticated science to pack data onto copper wires. This "last-mile technology" is used for connections from a telephone switching station to a home or office. DSL offers high speeds — compared to dial-up modems, that is — of up to 32 Mbps for downstream traffic, and from 32 Kbps to over 1 Mbps for upstream traffic. • HTML - Short for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create pages on the World Wide Web. HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. Most tags format and layout information in a Web page. A <P> tag makes paragraphs, while <I> … </I> italicizes fonts. Tags also specify "hypertext links," which direct users to other Web pages with only a mouse click on an image or word. • Server - A computer or device on a network that manages its resources. Servers are often "dedicated," meaning they perform no other tasks besides their server tasks. For example, a file server is a device dedicated to storing files. Any user on the network can store files on this server. A print server manages one or more printers, a network server manages network traffic, and a database server processes database queries. For more information, visit Webopedia. Got a question for Atlantic.Net's Technical Support team? E-mail us at faq@atlantic.net. |
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