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 | | Defining one point along this road as "the first computer" is exceedingly difficult. |
 | | That is, computer operating systems and applications were modified to include the ability to define and access the resources of other computers on the network, such as peripheral devices, stored information, and the like, as extensions of the resources of an individual computer. |
 | | Initially these facilities were available primarily to people working in high-tech environments, but in the 1990s the spread of applications like email and the World Wide Web, combined with the development of cheap, fast networking technologies like Ethernet (on two local scales) and ADSL saw computer networking become ubiquitous in the developed world. |
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