... role in the development of industrialized society. In the last ten years, the importance of the computer based communication system "Internet" has rapidly increased. While the Internet has allowed for major advances in rapid communication, it has also been a damaging influence on human and humane relationships. It has fostered the growth of impersonal and insincere relationships, reduced our morality tolerance levels ... Internet Blues, Take 2," Salon.com 18 Feb 2000, 3 Mar 2000 http://www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2000/02/18/stanford_study/index 3. Bob Gunn, "Making Clones Among Us," San...

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... . The original use of the Internet was to maintain communication during the cold war, with the Soviet Union in 1969, by the Department of Defense, incase of a nuclear attack or a major catastrophe. The vision of the Internet that would revolutionize the computer and communications belonged to JCR Licklider of MIT (Comer 22). In August of 1962 he envisioned a globally interconnected set ... the base on which they would build the switch. The physical network was constructed by the end of 1969 during the Vietnam War, linking four nodes: University of California Santa Barbara, Stanford Resea...

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... . The U.S. defense department hired ARPA, and they first connected computers at Stanford Research Institute in California, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and the University of Utah (Microsoft Encarta 98). This original network, which was the very first computer network, was called ARPANET (ARPA NETwork). The developers built ARPANET with a goal ... in recent years. Estimates predict that the total Internet revenues for 2001 are approximately 20 billion U.S. dollars (Clemente, Peter C. pg 44-45). These values show ...

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... before. (Vastel 153) On May 20, 1980, Québec voters went to the poll. The NO vote was 59.6 percent, while the YES vote was 40.4 percent. It was a major setback for Lévesque and the Parti Québécois (Sheppard 61). Chrétien also became an early enemy of Québec sovereignties with his involvement in ... most energetic Prime Ministers that any of the world had ever seen. When he spoke, everyone listened (Internet 5). A sharp, charismatic figure, he wore sandals to Parliament, dated celebrities such as Barbara Streisand and actress Margo Kidder, flashed an obscene gesture to protesters a...

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