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    The internet, otherwise known as the world wide web, was discovered and popularized in 1969, along with a new way of thinking. The internet has become our TV, maps, clocks, radios, and our typewriters, revolutionizing the technology world. Nowadays, people can go onto their personal computers and find anything and everything they were looking for simply at a click of a button. Although some critique the internet for making our population dumb, the internet is full of available and efficient resources

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    Internet Privacy The term Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) are words that not only are familiar to people all over the globe but their technology is ubiquitous. Aside from the availability of the Internet, several spin-off technologies have been possible such as mobile Internet service via the mobile telephone, PDA or even “netbooks” – those subnotebooks that are small-sized, low-cost and lightweight optimized for mobile Internet access and core computing functions. No doubt, it is difficult

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    Since the late 19th Century there has been many changes that were taking place in society. The major one was the introduction of the internet and the World Wide Web. Around the 1950 's the first network called ARPANET was created and through research the internet was later on produced in the late 1970 's. Within two decades the internet went from being a new form of communication technology, to being, for most people a very important part of their culture and daily life. Many once held an optimism

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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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    Web Design and Hosting The World Wide Web (WWW) has become a great medium for exchange of information between users. The World Wide Web is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by URLs, interlinked by hypertext links and accessed by via the Internet. It was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and is now simply know as “Web”. In this new millennium where Internet is available in every household it has become necessary that having a website is

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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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    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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    the world-wide-web. Without coding on the internet, users the codes for a given website and produce what we see on our screens. This form of coding is what makes web browsing possible; the code writing system was invented by a man named Tim Berners-Lee (the same man who gives these codes an address on the internet) , a man who has been widely awarded and praised for his work on the internet. Initially, HTML coding is what makes web browsing on any web browser possible. Basically what web-browsers

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    Introduction The World Wide Web consists of a collection of electronic documents in the form of web pages. These web pages have unique addresses called URL’s that show where to locate the web page on the World Wide Web. This essay will examine various definitions of URL’s and cookies, and why a web analyst should care about their importance. Definitions of URL and why an analyst should care about its importance. A URL (Universal Resource Locator) is defined, according to contests.about.com, as the

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    age, technology rules the world. Everywhere you look technology is being used for something, big or small by adults and even small children. However, the people who tend to utilize 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

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