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    The world wide web has a wide range of uses. From finding resources for research papers to diagnosing diseases by Googling symptoms, the spectrum of its utility is endless. While the web might be a great platform to find information, not all of the information out there is credible and thus using the internet in place of a doctor is not acceptable and needs to stop, or at least be carried out warily. It is understandable why one would prefer a quick Google search over a trip to the doctor’s office

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    The World Wide Web and Plagiarism In the recent past when computers were available to the public, users could easily type a document without having to retype a whole page to correct or add a part to a document. Shortly after that came the Internet where countless pages of documents and information became accessible to nearly everybody. The problem with plagiarism was much smaller and easier to detect before the Internet. Preceding the Internet, plagiarized materials used

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    speed are always being developed and brought into the marketplace. However, one thing that will continue to remain the same in all computers and continue to serve the same purpose is the World Wide Web, more commonly referred to as the Web or the web. Similar to the development of computers, the World Wide Web was not created overnight, but took time, effort, and brainpower to invent. We can credit this fascinating invention that connects everyone in the world to British physicist and computer scientist

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    how individuals use the Internet may access the World Wide Web. This presented paper highlights the history of the Internet and the development of the World Wide Web. It also describes the masterminds who created and developed the Web, enabled its popularization through the Web browser, and greatly improved its value by enabling web search. With the whole technology advances and changes, the differences between the first generation, Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is also important to consider because it does affect

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    Problems Facing The World Wide Web While flipping through the old pages of a book on Speech and Communication, my eyes caught the following lines of Marshall McLuhan: “Someday the whole world would be a global village.” He was simply referring to the idealized concept of a diverse community where people of different races and cultures would commune together (New York of today, for example). Little did McLuhan know that his words will one day become literal. That day is today

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    forever by inventing the beautiful and ever useful World Wide Web. Most would use the terms ‘internet’ and ‘World Wide Web’ interchangeably, however they are not the same at all. The Internet is an indescribably large network of networks while the World Wide Web is a refined way of gaining access to information on the internet. A really easy way to think about it is that the internet is connecting computers to other computers; whereas, the web is connecting people with one another. It is truly amazing

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    considered very important to many Americans, so why is it that they are starting to give it away? In the last couple of decades, the world witnessed a rise in technological advances, and with this rise came many wonderful inventions such as the world wide web. Many great things can be made possible due to the internet, but there are also many side effects. The world is now connected thanks to the help of the internet, but with this connectivity came the fall of privacy. With everyones information floating

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    According to Mark Pallen, “The world wide web is the crowning glory of the internet, providing a uniform, user friendly interface to the net.” The world wide web is the system that connects the internet together, and therefore connects the entire world. Without the interface of the world wide web, the internet would simply be a collections of ones and zeros, not the place of communication, learning, and collaboration it is. The world wide web was the most influential improvement of the 1990s because

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    The World Wide Web was planned by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 with the first successful test taking place in 1990. It is a collection of internet servers that support formatted documents in a mark-up language called HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) that can contain hyperlinks leading to other documents such as images, videos and graphic files. You can move from one document to another by clicking on hot spots (Links). At first the World Wide Web started of very simple. There were just static pages

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    and everything that you are looking for on the World Wide Web. If you type in the right information in the search engine, you will be directed to the information you need. Many individuals, companies, and businesses use Google for research when looking for the right product or service that best suits their needs. Google also offers businesses and companies marketing opportunities of their product or service to consumers who use the World Wide Web. There are many other search engines available on the

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