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| | Alan Liu, English 236 (Culture of Information) Study Materials: Class 17 Notes |
 | | The convergence that is the leitmotif of all these developments is perhaps best signalized by one event in particular: the sudden collapse of boundaries between LANs and WANs (necessitating the invention of "firewalls" and other means of reasserting that boundary for security reasons). |
 | | As evidenced by the logarithmic increase in nodes, users, and uses during the '70's and '80's, the Internet concept was highly successfulso successful, indeed, that it rapidly outgrew its original military framework (a separate military MILnet split off in 1983). |
 | | Much of the current story of the Internet, therefore, has to do not only with its outreach to such previously underconnected portions of the research-and-education community as humanities departments and undergraduates but with the creation of CIX, CommerceNet, MecklerWeb, and other commercial extensions of the Net. |
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