Hacking telephone networks is called "phreaking," and it got its start around the late 1960's and early 1970's. ... This was tough in the early days when the Internet consisted of only a few networks. ... In the 1990's, the World Wide Web helped the Internet and hacking explode into the everyday lives of ordinary people. ... Viruses like Melissa, Nimda, and Chernobyl helped the number of infected computers rise to 80 out of every 1000 in 1999 (Schwartau, 2000). ... Still, there are other tools that randomly go through every single possible combination of letters and numbers un...

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In the past there have been many triumphs in the world of technology. ... The Web began in 1989; it wasn't released to the world till the early 90's, that's when it became the World Wide Web. ... Because of the demand for the Internet around the World, and the amount of capital a business could make that provides this service, is surprising. ... E-mail is less expensive than postage stamps and paper, it is less time consuming, its available 24 hours a day 7 days a week and it had unlimited boundaries, meaning, e-mail can be sent anywhere in the world (Reid 28). ... There are app...

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