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The Internet
Released December, 1974
The Pros:Enormous Amounts of Material. Not just for geeks anymore (even though geeks rule!). Best invention ever - is it an invention? Better than the printing press at least.
The Cons:It can be difficult to verify the accuracy of information presented. Just as much 'good stuff' as there is 'bad stuff'. The best doesn't always rise to the top.
The Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, etc. The term "Internet" was adopted in December 1974 in the first Request For Comment published on the Transmission Control Program, but talk of such a system was well documented since the 1960s.
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"A network of such [computers], connected to one another by wide-band communication lines [which provided] the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and [other] symbiotic functions." - J.C.R. Licklider, January 1960 (excerpt from "Man-Computer Symbiosis")
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Enormous Amounts of Material
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Not just for geeks anymore (even though geeks rule!)
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Best invention ever - is it an invention? Better than the printing press at least
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Social networking like Facebook, Twitter
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Levels the playing field for small businesses
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Illegal music/video downloading
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Reach a broad audience for free essentially
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do most things that once required going outside from home
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makes it even easier to attain pornography
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allows for a great deal of anonymity
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It can be difficult to verify the accuracy of information presented.
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Just as much 'good stuff' as there is 'bad stuff'
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The best doesn't always rise to the top
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Can be addictive - ask Tay Zonday
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dakalvia:
#the_internet On June 28, 2006 United States Senator Ted Stevens (Republican-Alaska) described the internet as "a Series of Tubes". This was in the context of network neutrality and to criticize a proposed amendment to a committee bill. The amendment would have prohibited Internet service providers from charging fees to give some companies higher priority access to their networks or their customers. Here is an excerpt from this speech:
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got... an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday, I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially. They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
Apr 10, 08
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