Unit 6 — The Internet

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This unit discusses the Internet, the World Wide Web, and some related networking technologies and concepts.
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Advanced Projects Research Agency Network Backbone Bulletin Board System Cookie Cumbersome Domain name Download Electronic commerce Emoticon Hyperlink Hypertext Hypertext Markup Language Innovation Paradigm Uniform Resource Locator Upload Walled garden World Wide Web World Wide Web Consortium
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Reading Activity: The Rise of the World Wide Web

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Many people mix up the words, Internet, and World Wide Web, but they are not the same thing. The Internet is a huge global network of computers. The World Wide Web is a software protocol designed to run on that network. How the Internet Began The Internet backbone began as a US military project called ARPANET in the late 1960s. It was designed to survive even a nuclear attack by…
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The economics professor said monopolies can sometimes hurt innovation in the software industry.
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Smart phones were a total paradigm shift in the world of mobile phones.
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Early websites were cumbersome and slow compared to modern web applications.
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  • Was the Internet built for science geeks or the general public? What about the World Wide Web?
  • Did online communities exist before World Wide Web? If so, can you give some examples?
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