World Wide Web

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This paper discusses how the introduction of the world wide web changed the way individuals acquire and share information. Additionally, the paer discusses the history and development of the Internet. The paper suggests that the introduction of the world wide web helped make the Internet so much easier to use and understand for the average person that it has become the most popular and widely used resource to search for and obtain information.

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"Through the global mind change associated with the internet and the opportunity for information sharing and connectivity, individuals are changed. Each individual, depending on his or her desire to do so can research and develop ideas about self and other as quickly as their system will allow. Work has changed, education has changed, research opportunities and availabilities have changed, the social fiber of the world has changed and above all the individual has changed. The individual can seek information and understanding through the WWW as easily as they can start their car in the morning or even more basically, as they can tire their shoe or put their pants on one leg at a time. Though this may be an oversimplification, and the internet does require at least limited technological understanding to use it really is everyone's game, as long as they have the hardware available to them they can get information they seek or even more information than they need."

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