CUPID WINGS WAY ON LINE : LOVE SPRINGS ETERNAL ON NET.Byline: P.J. Huffstutter Daily News Staff Writer Thanks to the Internet, even the most shopping-phobic, romance-fearing would-be Romeos and Juliets can find ways to surprise their sweeties Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. . E-mail love letters. Clip-art angels. On-line flower arrangements. Electronically ordered chocolates. America Online See AOL. users can find a variety of ways to send romantic messages to their sweethearts, including Virtual Valentines and personal messages through AOL's Digital City Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. (keyword: LA). For those on the open Internet, here's a quick guide on ways to express your love, 20th century-style: They've got the moon and the stars, but what about Mars? Tap the International Star Registry (http://www.shopsite.com/stars) and name a star constellation after your loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl . Or surprise them with a deed for property on Mars (http://www.landsoftheuniverse.com). The ``Gifts d'Amour'' section of Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) lists ways to buy these and other innovative gifts. At the Blue Mountain Arts site (http://www.blue mountainarts.com), you can choose from more than a dozen cards and musical tunes. The site will send your pals a URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. address to retrieve their greeting. Qpid (http://www.mainquad.com) let's you mix and match a few dozen cards with musical tunes. You can also send someone an animated kiss - or a vampire love byte, if you're so inclined - along with the appropriate smooch sound. Tradition demands red roses, but what do roses actually say? Check out what certain flowers convey to your lady love(http://www.dina.kvl.dk:80/(tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. )fischer/alt.romance/flowers.html), then cruise over to Flowernet (http://www.flowernet.com) to find the perfect bouquet. Those suffering from performance fright can run to the Cyrano server (http://www.nando.net/toys/cyrano/v2.1/). Pick the theme of the note, and Cyrano is off and wooing. Other electronic card options include Van Gogh or Monet e-postcards through the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, Media Lab (http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu /Postcards/cardrack.html). The Free Card Shop (http://www.dair.com/greeting/valentin.htm) specializes in science fiction and 3-D pictures and cards. Send a personalized puppygram (http://www.disneyinteractive.com) to the Disney fan in your life. Dress up your handmade valentine with some free clip art (http://www.accent.net/coggan/valentines.html), and wow your lover with ASCII ASCII or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a set of codes used to represent letters, numbers, a few symbols, and control characters. Originally designed for teletype operations, it has found wide application in computers. hearts and cupids. Too busy to run to the store? Then pick up those last-minute luxury items - think truffles, champagne, incense and candles - through Shoppers Express (http://www.shopx.com). The on-line grocery shopping service can pull together your purchases and deliver them within three hours of receiving the order. CAPTION(S): Drawing Drawing: (Color) No caption (Computer with a heart on the monitor screen) |
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