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    As two building blocks of the Internet, HTTP and HTML play significant roles both in the current world and also the history of the Internet. They all have distinctive functions but there is always certain connection between them and only when they cope with each other, they are able to operate properly. And they successfully enabled the Internet getting into a new era which created numerous profits to economy and the development of society. They are also two key elements underlines the WWW (World

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    Jazz Styles in America Jazz music has been a part of America for many centuries. It has influenced many time periods and ways of life in America. "'Tin Pan Alley was a real alley on East Fourteenth Street near Third (in New York), but it was never just a place. Tin Pan Alley has come to be known for an era of songwriting when many musical ideas mixed together to form American popular music. Tin Pan Alley brought together many styles: blues, jazz, musical scores, and ragtime"' (Burton Lane

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    90's Significance

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    significance. The 90's was a decade that helped shape a generation and make our world what it is today. There was the Gulf War,which was the first war that involved America since Vietnam and the Cold War, a presidential scandal, and the rise of the internet. All of these events events have had a profound effect on our lives whether we realize it or not. In August of 1990, Iraq leader Saddam Hussein, invaded the neighboring country of Kuwait in an effort to gain control over there oil reserves and

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    Communication and language have evolved since the advent of the internet, but to what extent? How does this advancement affect how humans relate to each other and handle conflict? The internet is relatively new in human history, first developed by the government in the 1960’s to help backup sensitive files, it was then quickly picked up by universities for databases and communications like email. All along the internet’s history, humans have been finding ways to utilize it to share information

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    implies the purchasing or offering of products and administrations over the Internet. Electronic commerce is a defined word for any type of business transaction that involves the exchange of information across the Internet. It contains the many ranges of business including the retail sector, health care industry, hospitality and many more. Whatever it may be the business that should helpful to the customer and client. Internet is the tool to grow up the business in market with best facilities. Recently

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    The internet has revolutionised humankind. It has allowed a level of communication that had never been experienced previously. The hosting and transfer of data (with its subsequent change into information after human interpretation), and the ability to do so from any device with an internet connection has altered almost every facet of human life. According to Antoun Nabhan, we “no longer ‘use’ (the internet) as much as we ‘live’ in it”. However, the emergence of the internet has also brought unforeseen

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    Essay On Net Neutrality

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    The internet was first included in the broadcast and spectrum allotment by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This considerable change to the original Telecommunications Act lead to the internet to be regulated by the government for the first time in history. During late 2003, the term “Net Neutrality” was then adopted for this act (The History of). As time went on, Net Neutrality became one of the internet’s guiding principles, there for, obligating Internet providers to supply open networks by

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    that the Internet continues to spread its influence to further parts of the world. The internet gives benefits to anyone who uses the global-reaching technology. People are now able to connect to other individuals who they otherwise would not have met and share vast amounts of information in only a few seconds. However, some people with malicious intent uses that technology to harm or even destroy the rest of the population’s lives. In such a situation, communities with access to the Internet raise

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    “Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to our Brains,” Nicholas Carr argues that the internet has altered, possibly not in a good way, how people use their cognitive mind. Today, most everyone is getting on a computer and using the internet to do research, read an article, or scan the news in all its forms. They don’t realize that how they now read and research, with the use of the internet, has weakened their mind cognitively. The Internet, according to the author, is modifying

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    Censorship In China

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    Derek LIu Professor Andrew Hao The Economy and Culture of Contemporary China August 3 2015 Internet Censorship is Necessary for China’s Society and Economy Throughout the long history of China, central government has played a significant role in practicing surveillance on all sorts of social media. Numerous people were arrested or killed by the government merely because they spread messages which are potentially harmful to the government, similar as the thought crimes described in George

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