The Internet has come a long way in the past 50 years. New innovations such as integrated software and hardware has changed the way that people view and receive information today. "The Internet is a network connecting many computer networks and is based on a common addressing system and communications protocol.” It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today. (Encyclopedia Britannica 1999). The Internet got started by the Defense Department as a Cold …showed first 75 words of 1260 total…

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