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The Internet - Online Term Paper

The Internet

This is a nice invention. And considering the www alone, the main thing is
that it is flashy, colorful, icons are blinking and it can talk to you.
Besides that, it is fast and easy, of course. It claims to be a powerful
tool for exchanging and gathering information which will change the world
in the near future. And probably it will. The enthusiastic prophets of this
tool stress that the amount of information available on the web is already
immense and quickly growing, and access is getting cheaper, faster and more
widely available (financially and mentally) to all. And I'm asking: So
what?

First of all, too much information means no information. If I read one
newspaper I can learn ...

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into a muddy flood of shit. This leads me to the point of
clarifying the term "information":

This word usually has two meanings, a fact that contributes to
misunderstandings. It can mean a piece of wanted, useful and understandable
data or it can also mean any piece of data. When a stupid chick posts some
info that her doggie just pissed on the carpet and she includes on the web
page a picture of her with the dog, I wouldn't even call it "data". I call
it a scandal. And I waste my time downloading this crap because it happened
that this rotten dog is named Io, the same name as one of Jupiter's moons,
pictures of which I wanted to look at. Now you know what I'm talking about.

Therefore I say that www enthusiasts talk of "flow of information", when
there is virtually no information. And such "valuable" exchange of crap
between people is supposed to lead to a higher level in the development of
the human race. Congratulations. Would you like to make a data exchange
with this pretty ...

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Added: 9/15/2005 03:57:09 AM
Category: Computers
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