Word processing, e-mail, computer software, the Internet, and the World Wide Web are all sources of more and different learning activities. ... This adaptability is extremely appealing in a field with a wide variety of program types, content objectives, instructional settings, and learner needs and goals. ... Factors such as financial limitations or fascination with a high-end technology application can lead to adoption of applications that are either more limited or more complicated than necessary to meet existing needs and goals. ...

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The Internet provides three major services to its users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). ... Usenet News is the discussion forum of the Internet, consisting of around ten thousand different 'Newsgroups' dedicated to topics ranging from Adoption to Zoophilia, with circulation in the late 1980s was estimated at 22,000,000 people worldwide. ... The World Wide Web is the resource most people refer to as "The Internet". ... With around 31.4 million readers and 1.6 million sites in January 1997, the World Wide Web is easily the largest worldwide mass communications medium...

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