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WEB
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world wide phenomenon that let people chat and share documents and look for research.
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Encyclopedia
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This was used before the web to show us the meanings of all words and to look for information on a subject
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Tablets
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Used in the old age by Romans to write down important dates of their lives
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Vannever Bush and H. G. Wells
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Had similar goals about the web such as automated cross references
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Web browsers
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The Web’s extraordinary tapestry of images and text
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Marc Andreessden
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had roughed out a Mosaic demo during his 1992 Christmas vacation
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Sun Microsystems
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made traditional operating systems, and most applications written for them, irrelevant
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Marc Andreessen of Netscape and Sun’s Chief Scientist John Gage
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announced that Java would be built into Netscape
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Java
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a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995.
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Fraud
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swindlers exploited telegraphy for stock and racing fraud
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Phishing emails
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try to lure unsuspecting people to fake sites like this one
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Page and Brin
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Stanford graduate students, They invented Google
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Is the web a profitable business?
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For a decade, the answer was “no.”
It actually loses money. Now a days it gains a ton of money |
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Napster
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paved the way for centralized sharing like YouTube and distribution models like iTunes
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wikis, blogs (“WebLogs”)
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were a crucial way that people using read-only Web browsers gradually regained some ability to write content online
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YouTube
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bought by Google for $1.65 billion.
user-created video site |
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Lee’s 1990 browser-editor
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ran on rare NeXT computers
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microtography
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close up shots with a microscope
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hyperlinks
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are the programmatic commands to 'jump-to-another-page' in your web browser
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library cards
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let you check out books but tells you who has what book
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