Noise on the 'net

Since 1992, the explosive growth of the Internet and particularly the widespread use of hypertext transfer protocol to make available pages marked up with hypertext markup language (html) has made very significant changes on how everyone with access to the Internet obtains information. Professionals in noise control engineering can now routinely obtain information worldwide with a few clicks of the "mouse." The ability to create pages with relatively little effort and post those pages on the Internet has greatly improved the ways that professionals can communicate. In this article, we have included the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for many pages on the Internet. These URLs are given in parentheses, and in every case should be preceded by http:// to obtain the full URL