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- 7771: Radar: A Silent Eye in the Sky
- ... news to check the weather forecast. While radar seems to be an important part of our everyday lives, it has not been around for long. It was not put into effect until 1935, near World War II. The British and the Americans both worked on radar, but they did not work together to build a single system. They each developed their own systems at the same time. In 1935, the first ...
- 7772: Internet Pornography: Freedom of Press or Dangerous Influence?
- ... ban pornography but also to ban anti-Semitic newsgroups and web sites. Prodigy, a global network server, helped the German government by blocking these Web sites. When Prodigy was pressured by groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, Prodigy stopped blocking these Web site, and there was nothing Germany could do. This just shows the "power" that the United States holds over the Internet. Two reasons account for this "power." First ...
- 7773: Journalism on the Internet
- ... the globe connected together by telephone wires. It was first made by the military, "No one owns the Internet", to have a network with no centre. That way it could never be destroyed by nuclear war. Since then, universities have used it and it has evolved into what it is today. It is a library that contains mail, stories, news advertising, and just about everything else. "In a sense, freenets are ...
- 7774: Internet Censorship
- ... address said that "[Cyberspace] is about protecting and enlarging freedom of expression for all our citizens...Ideas should not be checked at the border Another person attending that conference was Ann Breeson of the American Civil Liberties Union, an organization dedicated to preserving many things including free speech. She is quoted as saying "Our big victory at Brussels was that we pressured them enough so that Al Gore in his keynote ...
- 7775: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... to all these pictures, and to the newsgroups where most of this obscenity is suspected to come from. A total of 80 newsgroups were removed, causing a large disturbance among the student body, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, all of whom felt this was unconstitutional. After only half a week, the college had backed down, and restored the newsgroups. This is a tiny example of what ...
- 7776: The Internet
- ... cultures online at once. In times when information from abroad is hard to acquire, it becomes clear how essential the Internet can be to global understanding. IRC gained international fame during the late Persian Gulf War, where updates from around the world came across the wire, and most people on IRC gathered on a single channel to hear these reports. Even during the coup attempt in Russia, people were providing live ...
- 7777: Improving Cyberspace
- ... too late. Works Cited C|Net. Survey Internet: 29 July 1995. Crandall, Jason. Survey Muskegon, Michigan: 29 Jan. 1996. Elmer-Dewitt, Philip. "On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn." Time 3 July 1995: Proquest. Heyman, Karen. "War on the Web." Net Guide Feb. 1996: 76-80. Huber, Peter. "Electronic Smut." Forbes 31 July 1995: 110.
- 7778: What is Virtual Reality
- ... next generation of SIMNET, the Defense Simulation Internet (DSI). (love those acronyms!) An accessible, if somewhat dark, treatment of SIMNET and DSI can be found in the premier issue of WIRED magazine (January 1993) entitled "War is Virtual Hell" by Bruce Sterling. The basic DIS protocol has been adopted as a standard for communication between distributed simulations by the IEEE. Basic information on DIS and SIMNET, including a C library to ...
- 7779: Hollywood and Computer Animation
- ... Times Were Changing Throughout its early years, the University of Utah's Computer Science Department was generously supported by a series of research grants from the Department of Defense. The 1970's, with its anti-war and anti-military protests, brought increasing restriction to the flows of academic grants, which had a direct impact on the Utah department's ability to carry out research. Fortunately, as the program wound down, Dr ...
- 7780: The First Generation of Computers
- The First Generation of Computers The first generation of computers, beginning around the end of World War 2, and continuing until around the year 1957, included computers that used vacuum tubes, drum memories, and programming in machine code. Computers at that time where mammoth machines that did not have the power our ...
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