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This presentation contains data about how Baby Boomers use the internet. It charts the rise of broadband, wireless connections, and a variety of internet activities, including e-commerce.

This presentation pulls together the latest Pew Internet data about how teens use the internet, their cell phones, and other technology. It explores how the world of digital natives is different from their predecessors.

This is about the first website used as World Wide Web.

"CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is where it all began in March 1989. A physicist, Tim Berners-Lee, wrote a proposal for information management showing how information could be transferred easily over the Internet by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information. The following year, Robert Cailliau, a systems engineer, joined in and soon became its number one advocate. The idea was to connect hypertext with the Internet and personal computers, thereby having a single information network to help CERN physicists share all the computer-stored information at the laboratory. Hypertext would enable users to browse easily between texts on web pages using links."

Welcome to info.cern.ch The website of the world's first-ever web server 1990 was a momentous year in world events. In February, Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in prison. In April, the space shuttle Discovery carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit. And in October, Germany was reunified.

"2012Phones.com Internet Trends June 7, 2010 CM Summit - New York City MSN/ MAIL: Lynda.wholesale@hotmail.com www.2012phones.comMorgan Stanley does and seeks to do business with companies covered in Morgan Stanley Research. As a result, investors should be aware that the firm may have a conflict of interest that couldaffect the objectivity of Morgan Stanley Research. Investors should consider Morgan Stanley Research as only a single factor in making their investment decision.For analyst certification and other important disclosures, refer to the Disclosure Section, located at the end of this report. "

North Korea has allowed a major telecommunications company to expand a 3G network into North Korea to allow mobile internet to foreign travels. North Korean citizens, however, are still prohibited from using the Internet.

For you Digital Natives out there, this infograph from MBAonline.com will seem all too common, so please forgive us "over 35" crowd for taking a moment to muse on just how the Internet has changed everything (so far)

This article discusses how people will be able to connect to the internet by the year 2014 in-flight, relating to the mobile steroid.

This article discusses how people will be able to connect to the internet by the year 2014 in-flight, relating to the mobile steroid.

This article is about how the UK Government will work alongside technology titans including Google and Facebook to help Sir Tim Berners-Lee in his mission to bring affordable internet to all. The Alliance for Affordable Internet founded by Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation received backing from the UK government on Monday, which will help the group reach its goal of bringing affordable internet to 90 percent of the global population that don't have access yet.

The Internet has opened up a world of opportunities, but is there a negative side to all this information and easy contact? Can the internet be a bad influence, on adults as well as children? It's hard to imagine the world without internet now. It's an integral part of life for most people.

Microsoft Windows is a series of software operating systems and graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).[2] Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. As of October 2009, Windows had approximately 91% of the market share of the client operating systems for usage on the Internet.[3][4][5] The most recent client version of Windows is Windows 7; the most recent server version is Windows Server 2008 R2; the most recent mobile OS version is Windows Phone 7. Contents [hide]

It is like internet telephony, which is voice messaging over the internet rather than an actual telephone

"To evaluate the current status of communication and fundraising strategies on the Internet, a stratified random sample of the Chronicle of Philanthropy's Philanthropy 400 was content-analyzed in mid-January 2005. Web sites were coded on variables identified in practitioner and scholarly literature on issues of accountability, fundraising practices, and interactive communication strategies. Chi-square analysis found that the top nonprofit organizations included copies of their annual reports, organizational goals, and mission statements, while second-tier organizations were more likely to use a sales approach by using e-commerce technology and terminology to process online donations."

"While Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google remain mega-leaders, Internet companies from China and Russia, like Baidu, Tencent, and Yandex, are becoming more successful and influential. According to Meeker, 81% of users of the top global Internet properties are outside the U.S. "

China doesn't want people to spread rumors about them over the web. "Chinese authorities have renewed the threat that internet users who use the internet to make statements that the government deems to be false will be punished."

89 out of 144 countries signed a treaty that allowed for governmental control of the internet. Many people do not like this, and feel their rights will be restricted.

Great food for thought!! Interesting take on exactly how much the internet connects the world. "Is the Internet a force for development and democracy or is it a digital dead-end?"

The way that the internet changed 

Internet is a very nice medium to connect with outer World. People use it as a medium to connect with other people, sharing files, entertainment and lots of other activities that are useful and beneficial in many terms. While browsing internet I found many websites which are useful in many ways.