Sources of information

The Internet

What is the Internet?

The Internet is a computer network. By inter-connecting computers around the world, the Internet has made it possible to share information with others. With the advent of commercial service providers in the 1990s, Internet use spread to general households, which in turn resulted in the explosive growth in the volume of available information.

Let's take a look at two popular types of Internet-based information distribution: the WWW and e-mail.

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