... and for the U.S. government. It was to be used in the event of a nuclear attack in order to keep communications lines open across the country by rerouting information through different servers across the country. Does this mean that the government owns the Internet, or is it no longer a tool limited by the powers that govern? Generalities such as these have sparked ... be said about what offends whom and how. As with many new technologies, today's laws don't apply well when it comes to the Internet. Is the Internet like a bookstore, where servers can not be expected to review every titl...

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... . Today the Internet consists of large telephone companies and universities nets. Each net connects a large number of computers also know as servers. When you are on the net your computer is connected through the telephone lines to one of those servers. All computers on the Internet have an address; it is this address you use when you want to connect to a server ... ...

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... information with each other. The Web was developed with the concept of universal readership. Any participating system should be able to read the information on any connected system using browsers, servers, addressing schemes, common protocols, and format negotiation. The Internet is a network of networks that are interconnected physically and capable of communicating and sharing data with each other. The network is ... do not search the World Wide Web directly. Each one searches a database of the full text of web pages selected from the billions of web pages out there residing on server...

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... -up ads that are not suitable for young children to view. Net-porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway and companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the Internet. Users who wish to view their material must pay Playboy and Hustler for their access. This is where net censorship arises. There is ... ...

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... -up ads that are not suitable for young children to view. Net-porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway and companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the Internet. Users who wish to view their material must pay Playboy and Hustler for their access. This is where net censorship arises. There is ... ...

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... -up ads that are not suitable for young children to view. Net-porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway and companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the Internet. Users who wish to view their material must pay Playboy and Hustler for their access. This is where net censorship arises.There is ... ...

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... home, you will be able to listen to your own music stored on your home PC on another computer. The Net's connections will no longer go from just PC's to servers, but every which way. The resulting possibilities from these types of connections are endless. The next wave of the Net will also cost more. All the things we've been ... ...

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... , and Bill Heelan at McGill, and the first remotely controlled machine to be linked to the Internet; a toaster (controlled by SNMP). 1991 was the year what WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers), was released by Brewster Kahle, of Thinking Machines Corporation; Paul Lindner and Mark P. McCahill released Gopher from the University of Minnesota, and most notably, World-Wide Web was released by ... ...

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The Internet is a vast collection of computers that are interconnected through Internet Service Providers (ISP's) and are catalogued by DNS servers. But what IS the Internet, in practical terms? The Internet is an extensive wealth of information at one's fingertips, and the network infrastructure that allows that data to be shared. ... ...

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... the net than had originally been envisaged and the volume of traffic per host was much larger. According to Richard T. Griffiths (n.d.), another essential development was the introduction of Domain Name Servers (DNS) in the year 1984. This system introduced some tiering into US Internet addresses such as edu. (educational), com. (commercial), gov. (governmental) in addition to org. (international organization) and a series ... ...

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... in a URL it means that the user is connecting to a file server and not a Web server and that some form of file transfer is going to take place. Most FTP servers require the user to log on to the server in order to transfer files. q Personal Leisure users often use FTP with file sharing programs which allow the user to download ... ...

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