The Internet: A Link to the World Imagine talking about the latest elections with someone three thousand miles away without receiving a large phone bill; or sending a letter to a friend or relative and having it arrive one second later. ... Berners-Lee's original plan for the WWW was to link Physicists throughout the world to the Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) (Stewart, Bill. www.living .). ... The Internet is universal, it is fast, it promotes freedom of speech, and it is growing at the highest rate of any other technology (Stewart, Bill. www.living .). ... E-mail has become ...

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Senators Jim Exon (D-Neb.) and Dan Coats (R-Ind.) pushed a bill through the House of Representatives, the Senate, and eventually to President Clinton, that would require certain material on the Internet to be removed. In February, 1996, President Clinton passed this bill into law, making it a crime to send or receive pornographic material over the Internet. ...

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As shown in Table 1; Table 1 Candidate Online raised through 12/31/99 Online Contributions through 02/15/00 Total contributions through 02/15/00 Online Contributions as % of Total Contributions Bill Bradley $ 1,200,000 $ 1,700,000 $ 28,000,000 6.1% John McCain $ 1,000,000 $ 4,300,000 $ 17,000,000 25.2% George W. ... The 1996 Presidential Campaign between Democratic President William Jefferson Clinton, and Republican nominee Robert Dole launched the use of the Internet as a tool to reach the voting public. ...

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"With the Internet, the whole globe is one marketplace and the Internet's information-rich WWW pages can help companies reach new customers," says Bill Washburn, former executive director of Commercial Internet Exchange (Baig 81). ... In 1994, the Clinton administration requested a National Information Infrastructure, which would link every business, home, school and college (Cooke 64). That is why the Clinton administration has made the building of an improved data highway the main component of a determined plan to strengthen the U.S. ... The Information Superhighway will be ...

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www.lii.org- an In-depth Report The World Wide Web provides all types of information that are beneficial to people of all ages. For the most part people use it to gain fast and useful information. In order to get this information and make it easier for the people search engines where created. There are many different types of search engines, some are excellent and motivated to help the people who use them, while others just simply want to try and make money. The search engine that I was assigned was www.lii.org. ...

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This label is considered to be the equivalent to an R-rated movie and came about when the RIAA voluntarily adopted it in order to stop the mandatory labeling bills that many states were beginning to produce. ...

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