Modern Use
Today, using the ICBM method of coordinates is one method of geotagging webpages or other online material. Some projects like GeoURL.org and A2B parse ICBM address included in webpages via meta tags, which can then be used to map out sites added to its database.
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Famous quotes containing the word modern:
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)
“Not so many years ago there there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel—movement through space—provided the universal metaphor for change.... One of the subtle confusions—perhaps one of the secret terrors—of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)