What is the Internet? The Internet‚ also known as: the Net is the single worldwide computer network that interconnects other computer networks‚ on which end-user services‚ such as World Wide Web sites‚ enabling data and other information to be exchanged the Internet is a worldwide network of thousands of computers and computer networks. It is a public‚ voluntary‚ and cooperative effort between the connected institutions and is not owned or operated by any single organization. The History
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It’s on television‚ in magazines‚ newspapers‚ and in our schools. Everywhere you go you hear about the Internet. Dubbed "The Information Superhighway‚" one might think that this network of millions of computers around the globe is as fast and as captivating as television‚ but with more and more users logging on everyday and staying on longer and longer‚ this "Information Superhighway" could be perhaps more correctly referred to as a clogged Los-Angeles expressway at lunch hour.<br><br>Users are often
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Creating‚ celebrating‚ and instrumentalising the online carnival Edited by David Kurt Herold and Peter Marolt Introduction Noise‚ spectacle‚ politics: carnival in Chinese cyberspace David Kurt Herold The Internet in China was developed at about the same time as the Internet in Europe and America‚ but its structures and set-up were quite different. During the late 1980s and early 1990s‚ academic institutions in China began to set up intranets on their campuses that were later connected
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Introduction Internet television is a new technological concept which offers television shows over high-speed internet. This means that an internet user can access his favorite shows online and on-demand. It is also similar to podcasting in many ways. Both Microsoft and Apple have these technologies to offer‚ such as Windows™ Media Center and the Apple TV® respectively. But how about the other companies‚ what are their positions about this? This paper would talk about and deal with internet TV‚ its advantages
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Advertising on the Internet started on October 27‚ 1994 with banner ads (Nagar‚ 2009). Since then‚ advertising on the Internet has developed rapidly together with the growth of the Internet traffic‚ and also create the clutter. As a result‚ many companies are using Internet advertising as an important tool to promote their products. It’s also a forum for customer communications and channel of distribution (Wolin‚ Korgonkar‚ Lund‚ 2002). Even Internet advertising is becoming more and more popular;
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Paying students for good grades? If schools truly want students to do well in school‚ then schools should pay students for their hard work. There are lots of ways why students should get payed for good grades. First of all‚ it prepares them for the world. Another reason is‚ that their test scores will increase because they are motivated to do well in school. In addition‚ it will increase the graduation rates in high school. From better graduation rates‚ to learning about work‚ to making kids smarter
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1950s 1957 USSR launches Sputnik‚ first artificial earth satellite. In response‚ US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)‚ the following year‚ within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military (:amk:) 1961 Leonard Kleinrock‚ MIT: "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets" (May 31) First paper on packet-switching (PS) theory 1962 J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark‚ MIT: "On-Line Man Computer Communication" (August)
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What is the effect of time spent on the internet on a person‚ her family‚ her employer‚ the companies she does business with and the communities that they live in? The internet has become a powerful and widespread communication platform. The internet has started to change the way of society in a few beneficial ways. The internet’s usefulness‚ a person keeping up with her friends or family‚ and the ability to go to school without leaving your home are a few of the beneficial ways. There is little
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Internet Predators One in four US teen girls reported that they met strangers off the Internet. One in seven boys admitted they did as well. While most of these "Internet friends" turn out to be another teen or preteen‚ that ’s not always the case. Unfortunately‚ children are now dying at the hands of their Internet child molesters and‚ not all sexual exploitation of children occurs offline. These child molesters are blackmailing the children into performing sexual acts in the comfort of their
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the extent to which cyber crimes have been committed. The advent of the internet has been accompanied by outcomes‚ good and bad. While the internet provides easy access to any information or person in any part of the world‚ it is the same advantage which has been misused for gaining undue advantage‚ in the form of various cyber crimes. One such crime among the plethora of cyber crimes‚ is the crime of defamation on the internet. The freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that has been
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