The Social Construction of the Internet
Date Submitted: 07/01/2004 13:14:50
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 8 pages (2164 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 8 pages (2164 words)
The internet is a relatively new concept created in the 1970s for the US Department of Defense to transfer encrypted data quickly and securely across the country in case of a nuclear attack and failure of phone landlines. Since then, the internet has evolved into a multitude of computer and wireless networks that are now accessible to the common family through the advent of micro technology that allows the computer that was once as big …
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