Lecture 8 : Internet The student will have a knowledge of the following: •History of the Internet •Internet Access •Common services provided by the Internet •Internet and Society By Mrs D.M.Narrainen‚ SBMF‚ UTM DEFINITIONS • Internet is based on a client-server model. • Client is the end user’s computer (with software) that sends requests to a server. • Server is a remote computer (with software) that handles requests from clients. 2 History of the Internet 1958: – The Advance
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How cell phones have changed our sense of self Comment0 Share Courtesy of flickr user Bundini Gunjan SinghCognitive Science Examiner Subscribe Follow: Advertisement August 18‚ 2010 Currently‚ more than half of the world uses cell phones as indicated by the mobile penetration rate of 61% that was reached by the end of 2008 (ITU‚ 2009). As cell phones continue to become a part of our daily life‚ there is a need to examine how general population’s attitudes
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Online or internet censorship is the control of publishing of and also accessing of information through the internet. These rules and regulations are mainly carried out by governments or by local organizations. The internet has become such a large source of information over the past decade or two. It is said there are over two million new internet users per month. As more users get a grasp of the internet and become familiar with it the potential of the content
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How the National Policy Affected Canada Politically‚ Socially‚ and Economically Everyone in Canada knows the name of our current Prime Minister Stephen Harper‚ but he has done nothing compared to our very first Prime Minister‚ John A. Macdonald. Macdonald did many things for our country‚ including making it a country‚ and it all started from his vision. He had a vision to unite all of Canada as one through a transcontinental railway‚ which went on to be known as the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)
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How Fifa the video game has changed Fifa 14 has gone on sale today. It probably makes sense. To their old-school critics‚ who prefer their football to be played with a bit more rough and tumble‚ Barcelona in reality are not unlike their Fifa counterpart‚ characterised by lots of short passing and a complete absence of tackling. Yet EA Sports‚ who have been putting out Fifa games since 1993‚ wouldn’t have it any other way. For 20 years they have been trying to recreate what happens on an actual
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“The Vietnam War and How It Changed America” At the end of World War II Military and Political tensions between the USSR (Russia) and the US greatly increased. Communism in the USSR presented itself as a big threat to the US’s national security. Fearing that the Communism would spread to Vietnam and other countries‚ the US opposed the independence movement there. The US first began by financially supporting France in the first Indochina War. The French defeat in Dein Bien Phu led to a peace
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How Football has Changed my Life What event changed your understanding of yourself‚ or that of someone you know? I was five years old when I started. It was early august and it was my first time ever playing an organized sport. I could tell I was about a few weeks late for the practices because everyone else had a football helmet and I didn’t. It was nerve wracking to see all the kids playing and me not knowing what to do. At the time I was really short (well of course I was five) but some of
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In the article “The Socially Constructed Body‚” Judith Lorber explains insights from Feminist theory that discuss how men and women in a society transform their own bodies to look a particular way in order to achieve the physical image that complies with what society believes is properly “masculine” or “feminine.” She illustrates how these “normal” gender images are not common because they are biologically true‚ but because society has constructed them. Though some aspects are obviously biological
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Topic: There is no denying that the invention of internet is definitely one of the greatest ones human have ever met. The widespread use of the internet can prove how this innovation affects people’s lives. There are following my opinions. Firstly‚ thanks to the internet‚ it is normally available that we can send any message and information to anywhere in the world immediately. In addition‚ so easy and quick to upload the latest information and news that we can receive all of them right away
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Communication A Comparative Study of Internet Addiction between the United States and China Lixuan Zhang‚ Ph.D.‚1 Clinton Amos‚ Ph.D.‚1 and William C. McDowell‚ Ph.D.2 Abstract This study explored Internet addiction among university students in China and the United States to develop a better understanding of Internet addiction in a cross-national setting. Three hundred fourteen respondents were evaluated on 10 Internet addiction symptoms and five Internet addiction dimensions: negative outcomes
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