This unit discusses the Internet, the World Wide Web, and related networking technologies and concepts.
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Many people mix up the words, Internet, and World Wide Web, but they are not the same thing. The Internet is a huge global network of computers. The World Wide Web is a software protocol designed to run on that network.
How the Internet Began
The Internet backbone began as a US military project called ARPANET in the late 1960s. It was designed to survive even a nuclear attack by…
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The current public Internet owes a big debt to ARPANET, which was the original global network.
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The economics professor said monopolies can sometimes hurt innovation in the software industry.
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Smart phones were a total paradigm shift in the world of mobile phones.
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- Was the Internet built for science geeks or the general public? What about the World Wide Web?
- Did online communities exist before World Wide Web? If so, can you give some examples?
