... inner workings of the internet. It is here where the competitive and global aspects of the internet began to take shape as Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, the particle physics laboratory in Geneva, wrote a memo to his supervisors suggesting his ideas for the invention of a worldwide network that would revolutionize everything. (Berners-Lee, Frischetti, 1999) In the early nineties Bereners ... ...

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... traffic was banned from NSFNET. In 1991, the NSF lifted the restriction, clearing the way for the age of electronic commerce. In March, 1989 at CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) or which ran in the NeXTStep operating system. The program, called "WorldWideWeb," used the hypertext transmission protocol (HTTP) to download and translate HTML documents on various networks. 1995). In Berners ... ...

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... new communication technologies seem to be destined for. With its primary study focused on the 'consciousness' of the human mind, Artificial Intelligence draws from all faculties of research - neuroscience, psychology, physics and biology - to name but a few (Roberts 1993. Sv " Arena Magazine"). Entertainment is caught in a double bind, depicting Artificial Intelligence in terms of Gibson's 'cyborg' and at the same time ... ...

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... idea behind the "Web", was to be able to share scientific information between universities all over the world. In the early 1990's a www system was made available to the energy physics institutes through the CERN library. CERN did not have enough resources to further develop this system so they asked for help via the Internet. In 1993, at the University of ... ...

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... could endow on humanity. Instead, they say that by acting in such a manner, we humans are trying to play the role of God. However, according to Capra of Tao of Physics, Science is trying to find the basic stuff that constitutes the reality. This research has shed enormous amount of light on life. Though only a piece of the great jigsaw puzzle ... ...

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