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    The World Wide Web

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    The World Wide Web, propelled by various social media programs like Twitter, FaceBook and Instagram, has become a double-edged sword in the era of Web 2.0. This double-edged sword can be symbolized by SENDERS of information, and RECEIVERS of information. In its early days, the primary use of the WWW was searching for information, on static ‘pages’, to fulfill a particular need or request. Maps, phone numbers, product information, and the like, were available to anyone who searched for it. The

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    World Wide Web. A URL is the essential system ID for any asset associated with the web (e.g., hypertext pages, images, and sound files). URLs have the following format: protocol://hostname/other_information. URL is the global address of document and other resources on the World Wide Web. URL normally declared by sounding out every letter however, in a few quarters, affirmed "Earl" - is the one of a kind location for a document that is open on the Internet. A typical approach to get to a Web webpage

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    Many people view the internet as the World Wide Web, connecting the population together and sharing information on a global scale. However, others look at it as a grotesque web that is entangling humanity with unintelligence. Whether positive or negative, it is indubitable that in the past years, society has become extremely reliant upon the internet. Every day, millions of people around the world use the internet for many different purposes: commerce, communication, social networking, work, education

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    Ethical Use of the World Wide Web For or Against Hacktivism, A Fierce Tug-of-War On November 28, 2010, a statement from the White House said, “We condemn in the strongest terms the unauthorized disclosure of classified documents and sensitive national security information” ("Statement by the Press Secretary"). Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and American ambassadors around the world were contacting foreign officials to alert them to the unexpected disclosure (Shane and Lehren). Earlier

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    technology consistently are students and young adults for the World Wide Web. The majority of the time students are using the World Wide Web as a resource to obtain information for their academic work. The World Wide Web hinders a student 's learning and the quality of their work. The Web is a power force everywhere, but not with education. The web does not provide or guarantee positive effects on education. Access to the web decreases the student’s critical thinking skills, accuracy of work

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    Something curious is happening on the World Wide Web. It is undergoing a slow transformation from an abstract, chaotic, information web into what I call a social hypertext. Initially, I didn't pay much attention to the Web. After all, it was just a new take on distributed information server systems such as WAIS[8] and Gopher[1]. True, it was easier to use than WAIS, and the ability of Web browsers to display formatted text and graphics with embedded links made it more attractive and engaging than

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    World Wide Web The world wide web is an information system on the internet that contains set of hyperlinks connecting users to web pages and websites. The web browsers such as internet explorer, google chrome and many others enable the user to access or transfer the information one way to the other. ISP An ISP (Internet Service Provider) is a company that provides internet servers with internet access facility and some other facilities such as virtual hosting. They are responsible for setting up

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    Since its introduction, the World Wide Web has been an electronic hub for people to share thoughts anonymously with others all over the globe, however the internet has been used for activities deemed illicit. Governments have responded by limiting the access people have to certain parts of the web and monitoring people’s internet activities. There are people who believe that these governments’ actions have violated civil rights. In order to protect their anonymity, people have turned to The Onion

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    Task 1 Web history The advent of the Internet started when the U.S. Government’s Department of Defense collaborated with some U.S. universities creating the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). This was driven by the cold war between the West and the Soviet Union at the time where fear of traditional communications breakdown may occur and phones stop working prompting the need for a backup plan. Mainframe to mainframe (No PCs were made yet) direct communication or in other words, a networking

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    World Wide Web is still very young. Berners-Lee initially developed three of the fundamental technologies that are the foundation of today’s web. Specifically, Berners-Lee created the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) – the markup language of the web, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) – a unique address used to identify each resource on the web, and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) – a way to send and retrieve resources on the web. Additionally, Berners-Lee also created the first web-browser

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