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The Internet, the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread! or Is It?
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The Internet, The best thing since sliced bread! Or is it? The subject that I am going to discuss is the Internet, and if it is the most important thing that has happened this century, or if it is a ticking time bomb waiting until it explodes and society is destroyed. But before I start I will give you the background information of the creation of the Internet. In 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into orbit and starts the space race. The United States fears that the Soviets will become even more advanced than them and so establish an advanced research project to try to overtake the USSR in the technology and science department. In 1962 Paul Baran Rand of the Rand Corporation (a government agency) is commissened by the U.S. Air Force to study and investigate how the military could maintain control of its nuclear arms after a...
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