Replace the BBS with a server the modem with an ISP to give you access and the phone with your cable or DSL and you have a modern day BBS or internet. The main difference's being instead of just one person a server can have hundered or thounsands of people accessing it all at once, we can also access the information much faster than any modem ever could and instead of having 10 BBS's all seperate that you would have to call up and connect to individually all of the servers are linked together so you can just jump from one to the other. ... The ability to be sitting at your desk typin...

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Computer Networking-Reasons and usage Before we begin, one must know the reasons to network and how to utilize a computer-networking environment. We begin by gathering some of the key hardware and software related to networking. We also introduce several key networking concepts. Much of the materi...

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The reviews consist mostly of servers and data storage devices. ... The main coverage of the articles are either e-business or products used in the computer field (servers, security packages, storage media, etc.). ...

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Net-porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway and companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that are permanent parts of the Internet. ... According to the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), any website can find out whose server and the location of the server a person used to get on the Internet, whether his computer is Windows or DOS based, and also the Internet browser that was used (Jennings and Fena 11). ...

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The users, parents, and servers of the world need to regulate themselves, so, as not to push the government into forcing these types of regulations on what might be the best communication instrument in history. ...

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Microeconomics I chose my article from the March 2nd edition of the USA Today. It is entitled "Net's Next Phase Will Weave Through Your Life." This article discusses the changes in the near future of the Internet. Since its invention less than a decade ago, the Internet has become part of our...

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In society it plays a negative role as it leads to a loss of sense of responsibility towards human relationships, a transfer of consciousness from a human to a server, education taking the form of more of an individualised type of learning, and people becoming information junkies ("Neil Postman on Cyberspace, 1995"), who are just interested in accumulating all the information they possibly can without knowing how to use their knowledge for the benefit of society. ...

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Everyone has heard about the exponential growth of the Internet. Everyone has seen the graphs portraying the numbers of users or servers. And everyone has read about hypes and bubbles, upswings and recessions related to the Internet. Putting these common information aside and taking a closer look on...

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Censoring the Internet Censoring the Internet The internet offers a huge wealth of information both good and bad, unfortunately the vary nature of the internet makes policing this new domain practically impossible. The internet began as a small university network in the United States and has b...

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