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Development of the internet began about 20 years ago. In 1973
the U.S. Defense Research Projects Agency initiated a program to
research the techniques and technologies for inter-linking various
types of networks. The objective was to develop communication
protocols that would allow networked computers to
communicate the transparently across multiple, linked networks.
This was called the internetting Project and the system of
networks that emerged from the research was known as the
internet, Since that time, various other research projects, to
include those conducted by the U.S. National Science Foundation
and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, have
shaped and tailored this project to give the world the internet as
we know it thousands of Service Providers in the world.
Latest data indicates that there were 1.5 million host computers
on the internet as of June 2002, in Pakistan. With such a large
a portion of the population swimming in this seemingly never-
ending sea of information, what is the real impact of the internet
on society" it seems that the majority of society thinks the
internet is the greatest invention since the telephone this is
probably best justified by the whirlwind rate at which the Internet
grows? In fact, some say that the Internet is so enjoyable that it is
almost addicting! The problem is that recent studies have shown
that the internet may not only be addicting because it is
enjoyable, but that a fairly large number of users are experiencing
addiction of a clinical form. Identifying which category of
addiction the internet falls into is another problem. There are no
real answers yet because research in this area is at the beginning
stages. In the Wst, a few researchers are comparing the internet's
effects on marijuana as a psychostimulant. They argue that the
chemicals in marijuana activate the same stimuli as the Internet.
Most researchers to this date do, however, agree that this is some
type of behavioral addiction. People can become addicted to
activities even when that is no physiological dependence or
physiological addition.
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