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The Internet

Cyberspace: Pros and Cons

The Internet was developed in the late 1960s at the initiative of the U.S. Department of Defense. Its intent was to enable scientists and engineers working on military contracts to share computers, resources, and ideas – the latter through "e-mail," a way of sending messages electronically. Designed to survive a nuclear war, information was transmitted in small "packages" through different routes, making it difficult to eavesdrop on the data and messages sent.

The popularity of the Internet spread slowly throughout the academic world, which by the mid-1980s was its principal user. Two innovations then revolutionized the ease with which the Internet could be used, propelling its popularity beyond academe. One was Swiss software engineer Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web and "hypertext" to link documents with one another. The other was a software program known as Mosaic (written primarily by Marc Andreesen, an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois), which provides user-friendly access to the "Web" and the "Net."

In 1994 commercial companies surpassed universities as the leading users of the Internet. Today it is the functional equivalent of the "information superhighway" telecommunication specialists have long anticipated and promised.

Use of the Internet has grown – fueled by the growth of personal computers in homes and businesses – from less than 100,000 Internet hosts in 1988 to 15 million in 1997 (Time, May 19, 1997). Concerns about its uses and abuses surfaced, and questions about whether and how governments might exert control over the "Net" inevitably followed.