This is of no wonder to anyone - the World Wide Web ( WWW ) is an as good as all-American encounter. To some nations and cultures all around the planet the fact that they cannot use a native script in a domain, to write in non-Latin characters, honestly gets them angry sometimes. One such country would be the cumbersome bygone superpower, Russia. Russian is written in their native script of Cyrillic. For a culture with such a lengthy and imposing history, to have to set every single online representation in a foreign script, is understandably humiliating. For irritable audiences like these, the Internet mechanism has just recently gained the ability to recognize and allow foreign scripts in URLs; and the Russians, is front the charge in setting off the shift the world over, towards local language scripts to use in basic URL addresses for every local website domain.

So does the general Russian on the street revel at the likely person that the Russian Internet know-how might be more user-friendly now that local web domains are in Russian script? Well, it would depend on where you look. Russia's most famed search engine Yandex reckons that no more than one in ten Russians would grateful the expertise to type in their web domain addresses in Cyrillic. That seems like a disheartening level of support. But if you would think twice about what it was like to be Red Russian for years, to live under a former KGB chief even today, you would understand. This is a nation that was bound by a communist one-party government to shun the world, and focus inward, for something like 50 years. There was zilch about the rest of the world on TV, and in the papers, that was not run through the communist propaganda machine. The media is not entirely free there even now days But the Internet is, and the people of Russia consider this freedom a precious gift. Anything that the Russian government plans to do with the Radio news stations fills people with extravagant suspicion. They put trust in that the government is only proposing this native language web domain business, to begin some kind of way by which to waylay the Internet too.

Russia has a population of almost 150 mill and only about a fifth of them get to make use of the Internet. The other 80% exist outside the cities, and have little exposure to English or have a percipient need for anything not Russian. There are more than 2 million web domains registered with the Russian .ru suffix, and they would be interested in this for no reason other than to keep away from the humiliation of typing in their proud .ru suffix in a foreign English. The more the Internet is offered to them in their own language, the more it would help them use it too. Businesses defy this plan, that they believe will come in the middle of next year; they fear that native language web domain names are going to make the Internet go much slower make websites more difficult to set up and run, and more confusing to protect from threats. There was even some discussion that having Cyrillic script for a Web domain name could make it more tough to fight international Russian crime, like the one that bilked Citibank in new york city lately

The society of the world is watching Russia's experience in deploying native script in Web name; India, China and other widespread nations with their own custom made scripts, have had a long and breathless pause for this day, that they could place their own accent front and center, and not look westward for a language script handout. That day is here.

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The History Of Fountain Pens.

The first fountain pen was created in the 10th century. It was designed at the behest of the ruler of Egypt who demanded a writing instrument that would not cause his hands to be stained with ink, as is a common problem when dipping a quill pen in a bottle of ink. He also stipulated that the pen should be able to be carried without making a mess. His subjects responded with a pen that held a reservoir of ink fed to the tip by capillary action and gravity.

The technology was lost to history, however, and it was not until the 19th century that a reliable fountain pen was created. In the hundreds of years in between, there were undoubtably lots of ink stained hands and spilled ink bottles. The early pens still had problems with dripping and scratching.

As more inventors focused on improving the design, pens began to improve. Three inventions were necessary before the fountain pen became the reliable writing instrument it is today: free flowing ink, iridium tipped, gold nibs, and hard rubber. These three elements first came together in the 1850s. By the 1880s, fountain pens were being mass produced by the American maker Waterman at factories in New York and Pennsylvania.

Waterman remained at the forefront of the industry for 40 years. The pens they made as well as those of the competition were reliable for writing, but there were still problems. The ink was stored in a hollow section in the barrel of the pen. The end of the pen had a cap that unscrewed so the ink could be refilled and the pens tended to leak at this joint in the barrel and into the cap. They were also messy to refill.

Inventors solved the refilling problem with a number of different purpose built refillers that were much less messy than the eyedroppers previously used. At the same time, other inventors worked on the leaking problem. Two different solutions emerged, both called safety pens. One used a retractable point that allowed the reservoir to be sealed and the other was a cap with a second inner cap that fit tightly around the point to prevent leaking.

In modern times, the fountain pen has largely been replaced by the ball point pen, although there are still many who value it for its elegance and ease of use. A quality fountain pen can last several lifetimes while the best ball point pen will always be disposable and replaceable. There are quite a few people who collect fountain pens.

Arthritis sufferer often find that the minimal effort required from the fountain pen causes them much less pain than using a ball point. Other who try the fountain pen enjoy this effortless quality of the writing even if they do not need it. And a quality fountain pen can be an antique that can be used instead of just displayed on a shelf, adding to the appeal.

Much of the appeal today comes from the romance attached to fountain pens, but there are practical reasons for using one as well. Expressive penmanship and calligraphy styles can be done with a fountain pen that are not possible with a ball point. There are also a wider variety of inks available for fountain pens than can found or ball points.

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