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 | | Source: NortelIT: Discovering the Internet
Understand the basics of how the Internet works, including its history, its technology and how to better navigate its resources. This Nortel Learn iT video series guides you through everything you need to know about the Internet. |
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| | The Elon University/Pew Internet Project site Imagining the Internet: A History and Forecast is a multi-section resource containing thousands of pages. It exposes future possibilities while simultaneously providing a peek back at the past. In it, you will find the words of thousands of people from every corner of the world, from today and from yesterday, making thousands of predictive pronouncements about the future of humankind. |
| | When the World Wide Web began in 1990, few suspected how successful it would become. One estimate is that there are over a hundred million websites and 30 billion web pages
Links to info and video |
| | The evolution of the Internet has been full of surprises – surprises that have sometimes resulted in radical changes in the commercial landscape, such as the arrival of Amazon, eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), YouTube Inc. , and Skype Ltd.
Could one of the next big surprises turn out to be linked to developing countries?
At first glance, the idea seems implausible (laughable, even) because of the low penetration
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| | Our Mission
Global Media Outreach prays that we see…
A world where we reach every person for Christ using the internet and other media.
Our Vision
The vision of GMO is to give everyone on earth multiple opportunities to know Jesus, see hundreds of millions accept Christ and see them grow in their faith and connect them to Christian movements everywhere.
The strategy: move people from isolation to connection and from information to transformation
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| | It is very possible that the most recent visitors to your church were driven there by the internet. And not just the internet. A specific internet evangelism strategy brought to you by Global Media Outreach, a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ based in California that specializes in using the medium of the internet to evangelize people looking for God.
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| | Obama’s pioneering use of Web and other technologies not only transformed
campaign politics, but it could influence how government and business work
as well. Plus: How the industry views the president-elect’s tech agenda. |
| | A survey of technology thinkers and
stakeholders shows they believe the internet
will continue to spread in a “flattening” and
improving world. There are many, though, who
think major problems will accompany
technology advances by 2020 |
| | In a survey, technology experts and scholars evaluate where the network is headed in the next ten years |
| | A 1969 perspective on computers in the future
Remember The Jetsons and how cool the future was supposed to be? This 1969 video shows the convenience of online shopping, banking, and an "electronic correspondence machine." |