... may cause fellow diners to avoid it. Never offer another person--even a spouse--food from your plate. This practice is regarded with disgust in Indian culture. Do not thank your hosts at the end of a meal. Saying "thank you" for a meal is considered insulting because thanks are perceived as form of payment. Instead, offer to reciprocate by inviting your ... are staying with a family, feel free to ask them what they would like. Certain very basic, practical, items taken for granted in the West are unavailable in India. Electronic gadgets, computer disks, bandages, instant soup mix, and k...

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• Grade Level: High School

... type computers, I don't really know why but the immense power of these huge computers intrigued me. I would always visit sites about "legacy" hardware (very old sometimes ancient computer systems). One day I stumbled upon a site that had pictures of a typical late 70's mainframe. I looked around on the site and saw that the owner's e-mail ... address was at the bottom. I e-mailed the given address and asked a few questions about the computer, and the owner's name was Jon. About three days later he replied and gave me his user name for a "chat" service so we could talk. We talked for ... ...

• Word Count: 1273
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... type computers, I don't really know why but the immense power of these huge computers intrigued me. I would always visit sites about "legacy" hardware (very old sometimes ancient computer systems). One day I stumbled upon a site that had pictures of a typical late 70's mainframe. I looked around on the site and saw that the owner's e-mail ... address was at the bottom. I e-mailed the given address and asked a few questions about the computer, and the owner's name was Jon. About three days later he replied and gave me his user name for a "chat" service so we could talk. We talked for ... ...

• Word Count: 1274
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... up in a network. They are then able to access information from thousands of other computers. The network acts like one large computer storing information in various places, rather than one physical place. Users of the Internet access this big network to get information or ... countries wanted control of the possibly powerful tool (Comer 36). In 1965, Thomas Merrill and Lawrence G. Roberts created the first wide-area computer. This experiment proved that computers could work together running programs and retrieving data as necessary on remote machines. In 1966 Roberts put together ... c...

• Word Count: 1841
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School