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Credit Card Numbers Prevent Misuse
2,273 wordsThesis: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship. I. In the Internet community, there is a large volume of technical terms. For this reason, it is first necessary to examine the terminology specific to Internet. 1. The internet is a world wide computer network. 1. Electronic mail (email), which is one component of the Internet, approximates person to person letters, memoranda, notes an...
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713 wordsSometime in the mid 1960 's, during the Cold War, it became apparent that there was a need for a bombproof communications system. A concept was devised to link computers together throughout the country. With such a system in place large sections of the country could be nuked and messages could still get through. In the beginning, only government "think tanks" and a few universities were linked. Basically the Internet was an emergency military communications system operated by the Department of D...
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Radio And Television Electronic Mail
480 wordsThe internet is a computer-based worldwide information network. It is composed of a large number of smaller interconnected networks called internets. Unlike the traditional broadcasting media, such as radio and television, the Internet is a decentralized system. It can publish ideas, and can sell products with a minium overhead cost. The internets from which the Internet is composed are usually public access networks, meaning that the resources of the network can be shared with anyone logging on...
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Tcp Ip User Friendly
1,076 wordsThe Internet began by a vision of a psychologist named, SCR Licwriter in the 1950 s. Lickwriter was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His vision was to connect all the computers together so they would be more useful in sharing information. This vision was just a thought of imagination then. In 1958 US forms the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), within the Department of Defense (DoD) to establish US lead in science and technology applicable to the military. The ARP...
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Department Of Defense Programming Languages
1,514 wordsAdvances in technology over the years have brought about a phenomenon caused by the fusion of computers and art. The commercial and entertainment industries have been transformed and overtaken by the vast use and demand for computer art. From web design and layout to special effects and animation, the use of computers for art and the skills needed to produce such things are in high demand. Currently one of the most popular uses of computer art is through web design for the Internet. Whether it i...
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Forms Of Media Censorship Of The Internet
825 wordsCensorship is a word that breeds strong emotions in many people. Whether it is associated with speech, fashion, or the access to information. Censorship has been around since before the time of the bible. It has caused wars and revolutions. Censorship has always been a staple of Dictatorship and Totalitarian governments. These types of governments thrive off censorship because it gives them power to control, restrain, and limit what people hear, read, see, and speak. Since the beginning of mass ...
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Personal Computers World Wide
646 wordsEmail had been used in 1971. The world which include the telex network that was used extensively by business on a world-wide basis from the mid- 1920 's to the mid- 1980 's. The telex network was independent of the telephone network and telex machines could connect with and communicate with any other telex machine on a global scale. Telex also was relatively secure in that the sending and receiving machines did identifying handshaking. It was relatively expensive to have a 'telex line' installed...
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Runs The Internet Tcp Ip Network
483 wordsThe Internet began as the ARPANET during the cold war in 1969. It was developed by the US Department of Defense's research people in conjunction with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network that could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, it's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very convenient way to communicate. For the first decade that the Internet was in existence, it was primaril...
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Long Period Of Time Tens Of Thousands
2,571 wordsGreatest Media Innovation Internet is one of the greatest media innovations. Internet is a worldwide web, a network that allows connecting millions computers located in various places of the Earth into one huge network. The possibilities of internet have almost no limits, as it allows listening to the music, and books, watching movies, radio and TV programs, learning and playing, sending and receiving electronic mail, and communicating with the users connected to the internet network. Internet t...
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Transfer Protocol Chat Room
588 wordsDiscovering Computers Quiz Attempt 1 Points to Know There are 21 multiple choice questions. This quiz is worth 105 points 1 People around the world use the Internet to all of the above. Answer: d. all of the above 2 In a chat room, people can communicate with multiple users at the same time much like a group discussion. Answer: c. a chat room 3 A Web site is a collection of related Web pages. Answer: a. a collection of related Web pages 4 The World Wide Web and e-mail are two of the more widely ...
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Pornography On The Internet Internet Pornography
589 wordsThe Internet, Pornography, And Children Why Should The Internet, Pornography, And Children Why Should Anyone Be Concerned About Pornography On The Internet? The Internet, Pornography, and Children why should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all, this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the Internet; it cannot be true when children also use the Internet. Most people would agree ...
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Fastest Growing Telecommunications Sector
1,362 wordsJoe Koppel/Com 200 Computer Jobs will be Plentiful in the Twenty-first Century Only once in a lifetime will a new invention come along to touch every aspect of our lives. A machine that has done all of this and more now exists in nearly every business in the US and one out of every two households. This incredible invention is of course the computer! ? How many people use computers either at home or at work? Computers have been around us for longer than most of us think. The electronic computer h...
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636 wordsToday the Internet is a like a second world. You can get news, play games and even shop online. All this right from the comfort of your own home. But the Internet didn t just come out of the blue, it was triggered by a very important event back in 1957: The USSR launches Sputnik, the first artificial satellite. This was important because it was the start of global telecommunications. Satellites today play an important role in transmitting all types of data. President Eisenhower saw the need for ...
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases Communications Decency Act
958 wordsThe Internet is one of the technologies that are widely used in the world. It is also one of the most controversial technologies. The government wants to put some regulations on the Internet. These regulations mainly consist of the censorship of it. These regulations are lead by the Communications Decency Act. This censorship causes a lot of problems to its users. People are arguing that all this censoring would run people away from it. Other people believe that censorship has been needed to con...
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Access To The Internet Chat Rooms
2,399 wordsBeam me up, Scottie. This popular line from Star Trek was a demonstration of the advanced technology of the future. Though it was a fictional story, Star Trek became the universal vision of the future. As always reality tends to mimic fiction. Though our society has not quite resulted to living in space, we have made life easier with technology. Economic survival has become more dependent upon information and communications bringing forth new technology of which was never thought possible. Just ...
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Communications Decency Act Carnegie Mellon
2,526 wordsThe internet offers a huge wealth of information both good and bad, unfortunately the vary nature of the internet makes policing this new domain practically impossible. The internet began as a small university network in the United States and has blossomed into a vast telecommunications network spanning the globe. Today the internet is ruled by no governing body and it is an open society for ideas to be developed and shared in. Unfortunately every society has its seedy underside and the internet...
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Communications Decency Act Protect Their Children
2,226 wordsWhy should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all, this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the Internet; it can not be true when children also use the Internet. Most people would agree that children should not have access to Internet sites that are considered pornographic. Does that mean that children should not be allowed Internet access or that the Internet should not have por...
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Electronic Publishing Desktop Publishing
1,937 wordsMultimedia, or mixed-media, systems offer presentations that integrate effects existing in a variety of formats, including text, graphics, animation, audio, and video. Such presentations first became commercially available in very primitive form in the early 1980 s, as a result of advances that have been made in digital compression technology particularly the difficult area of image compression. Multimedia online services are obtainable through telephone / computer or television links, multimedi...
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Significant Events E Mail
866 wordsThe Internet is perhaps todays most influential technological advance. Significant events in history contributing to the development of the Internet can be traced back to as early as 1858. As the Internet expands in the future, it stands to gain control over much of the world. The earliest event in history leading to the development of the Internet took place in 1858. This was the laying of the Atlantic Cable. It was laid to provide instantaneous communication across the ocean. Although it was s...
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Ip Addresses Domain Names
781 wordsBy Internet Addressing Internet Addressing By Gail Battista Domain Name System lets you have name to number mappings on your computer. The name dec. even. uwa. edu. au is the number 130. 95. 4. 2 and vice versa. This is achieved through the DNS. The DNS is a heir achy. There are a small number of root domain severs that are responsible for tracking the top level domains and who is under them. The root domain servers between them know all about the people who have name servers that are authoritie...
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