Quote:
"It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it ... After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics" - Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
Question:
What is your most favorite thing about the Internet?
Proposition:
Aside from the complex physical connections that make its infrastructure and the quantity and quality of the information which resides on it, it is so obvious that the Internet has already gone ...
... so BIG ...
That ... according to a study produced by faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley ... we are all drowning in a sea of information! The study shows the world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth. (An exabyte is a billion gigabytes, or 10^18 bytes. ) Furthermore, the "surface" Web (is what everybody knows as the "Web", what you can see ), which is a portion (one fifth) of the entire Web, consists of approximately 2.5 billion documents, up from 1 billion pages at the beginning of the year, with a rate of growth of 7.3 million pages per day.
... so POWERFUL ...
That ... according to Internet World Stats , as of June 30, 2007, almost 1.2 billion people use the Internet with the majority of the users from US (18%), China (12.3%) and Japan (7.4). Many use the Internet ...
"It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it ... After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics" - Denise Caruso, (digital commerce columnist, New York Times)
Question:
What is your most favorite thing about the Internet?
Proposition:
Aside from the complex physical connections that make its infrastructure and the quantity and quality of the information which resides on it, it is so obvious that the Internet has already gone ...
... so BIG ...
That ... according to a study produced by faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley ... we are all drowning in a sea of information! The study shows the world produces between 1 and 2 exabytes of unique information per year, which is roughly 250 megabytes for every man, woman, and child on earth. (An exabyte is a billion gigabytes, or 10^18 bytes. ) Furthermore, the "surface" Web (is what everybody knows as the "Web", what you can see ), which is a portion (one fifth) of the entire Web, consists of approximately 2.5 billion documents, up from 1 billion pages at the beginning of the year, with a rate of growth of 7.3 million pages per day.
... so POWERFUL ...
That ... according to Internet World Stats , as of June 30, 2007, almost 1.2 billion people use the Internet with the majority of the users from US (18%), China (12.3%) and Japan (7.4). Many use the Internet ...
- To access news, weather and sports reports... to plan and book holidays and to find out more about their random ideas and casual interests.
- For e-mails, file-sharing, instant messaging, search engine and download music, games and ... movies.
... and POINTLESS ...
That for some ... It is best to assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets designed to have the worst possible effect ... while it is for some other people ("The different")... it has nearly became a complete substitute for life!
Answer:
Well, ...my favorite thing about the Internet is that ... j00Z 937 70 90 1\70 7-3 pR1\/473 \/\/0RLD 0Ph r34L (R33P5 \/\/17-0U7 -4\/1\9 70 5/\/\3LL 7-3/\/\.
O&O (... FTW!)
That for some ... It is best to assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets designed to have the worst possible effect ... while it is for some other people ("The different")... it has nearly became a complete substitute for life!
Answer:
Well, ...my favorite thing about the Internet is that ... j00Z 937 70 90 1\70 7-3 pR1\/473 \/\/0RLD 0Ph r34L (R33P5 \/\/17-0U7 -4\/1\9 70 5/\/\3LL 7-3/\/\.
O&O (... FTW!)
