The Social Construction of the Internet

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 …showed first 75 words of 2164 total…

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