Taylor commented on Licklider's ideas: "Lick was among the first to perceive the spirit of community created among the users of the first time-sharing systems... ... In this system, if someone wants computer A to communicate with computer B, there must be a wire or circuit between the two computers. ... Computer A could communicate with any computer in the network. Computer B could also communicate with any of the other computers. ... Since computer time sharing experiments at MIT and at Dartmouth had demonstrated that it was possible to link different computer users to...

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By the second year of its operation however, APRANET's users had warped the high cost, computer sharing network into a dedicated, high-speed, federally subsidized electronic post office. ... The user is free to browse or transfer information with others. Most ISP's even allow their users to set up permanent homepages on the ISP's computer for the whole internet community to view. ... Some users wish to display "objectionable" material on their homepages. ... Average users can also set up homepages on ISP's. ...

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When the user runs the program in his computer, the virus or worm becomes active. ... A network firewall serves as a primary line of defense against external threats to an organization's computer systems, networks, and critical information. ... Proxy/Circuit Level Gateway Firewalls - This technology serves as an intermediary between the user and the system. It forces the user to first connect to the firewall. ... Such a proxy is the FTP application proxy, which serves in examining a user's requests to verify conformance to the FTP protocol specification. ...

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Computers were not using the first generation optical network. ... The bandwidth required between computers was extremely small because there were only a few computer nodes on the network. ... There was no streaming audio or video, no collaborative computing, no desktop publishing, no graphical user interface, and no Internet, as we know it today. ... At the same time, the graphical user interface (GUI) was developed and marketed by companies like Xerox, Apple and Microsoft. GUI provided a friendly user interface to computers. ...

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Short afterwards the Second World War, the Laboratories Bell (Bell Laboratories) undertook a program for benefit of communication services with systems which used common institution (common carrier), so that are served a lot of users together moved in different geographic bands. ... Service DPLMRS undertook the below two systems: • First of them it functioned in 1946 for the cover of communication needs of users which was moved inside the city of St. ... • In 1947 were installed a second system for the cover of communication needs of users which were moved in the motorway New Yo...

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