... Microsoft's business practices. In 1994, Microsoft signed an agreement with the Department of Justice. It stated that Microsoft could not require hardware manufacturers who license use of its operating system to license other software applications, but could produce and license integrated products. In 1995 ... exert undue control. There is probably no industry in which agreed-upon standards are as important as the computer industry. The proper interaction of software and hardware, software and other software, and computers with other computers via networks depend on many sets of standards...

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... the Internet. The Web is built on the Internet, and makes use of many of the mechanisms the Internet provides. The Internet is the hardware or physical aspects such as computers, networks, and/or services. It allows us to connect to thousands of other computers across the world. ... command and control. In 1965, ARPA sponsored research into a cooperative network of time-sharing computers. Delegates at a symposium for the Association for Computer Machinery in Gatlingbert, Tennessee discussed the first plans for the ARPANET in 1967. Researchers at four United States campuses created the fir...

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