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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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    Tim Berners-Lee in 1989, the 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

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    The world wide web has a wide range of uses. From finding resources for research papers to diagnosing diseases by Googling symptoms, the spectrum of its utility is endless. While the web might be a great platform to find information, not all of the information out there is credible and thus using the internet in place of a doctor is not acceptable and needs to stop, or at least be carried out warily. It is understandable why one would prefer a quick Google search over a trip to the doctor’s office

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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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    one thing that will continue to remain the same in all computers and continue to serve the same purpose is the World Wide Web, more commonly referred to as the Web or the web. Similar to the development of computers, the World Wide Web was not created overnight, but took time, effort, and brainpower to invent. We can credit this fascinating invention that connects everyone in the world to British physicist and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Sir Tim Berners-Lee was born on June 8, 1955 in

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    1. Provide a definition of the term Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is often referred to as the second generation of World Wide Web. “Web 2.0 basically refers to the transition from static HTML Web pages to a more dynamic Web that is more organized and is based on serving Web applications to users.” (Beal,2013). This technology is used on various sites such as eBay, Gmail and Facebook. Web 2.0 makes sharing and collaborating user generated content easier through the incorporation of Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight

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    The World Wide Web and Plagiarism In the recent past when computers were available to the public, users could easily type a document without having to retype a whole page to correct or add a part to a document. Shortly after that came the Internet where countless pages of documents and information became accessible to nearly everybody. The problem with plagiarism was much smaller and easier to detect before the Internet. Preceding the Internet, plagiarized materials used

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    how individuals use the Internet may access the World Wide Web. This presented paper highlights the history of the Internet and the development of the World Wide Web. It also describes the masterminds who created and developed the Web, enabled its popularization through the Web browser, and greatly improved its value by enabling web search. With the whole technology advances and changes, the differences between the first generation, Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is also important to consider because it does

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    Our generation thrived in one field incredibly fast, technology. We have developed so much technology that there is no telling the virtual size the World Wide Web. A lot of software has been invented and written to try and contribute to organizing this ungodly number of pages, texts, music, pictures and videos. The Search engines came to life and became a billion dollar industry once a reliable, user friendly version made it to customers. Giant companies invest giant money into these businesses and

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