This essy is on the internet and how the world plans to deal with the new problems that it brings. To start a brief defination of what the internet is Before the Internet, there was ARPAnet (the predecessor of today's Internet), created almost 25 years ago as an experimental network to support military research for the U.S. Defense Department. One of the primary design goals of ARPAnet was to prove that distributed networking would protect the network from destruction by locating individual nodes as far apart from each other as possible. ARPAnet grew from there as marketing opportunities forced its developers to create Inter-net Protocol (IP) software for nearly every conceivable type of computer. It didn't matter what type of computer equipment that government and universities had (since they had no nationwide standard for purchasing computer equipment), because the IP software was designed to be practically universal.

early 80's, the National Science Foundation (NSF) stepped in and created five supercomputer centers and called it NSFNET. Now, anyone that could afford the cost of a leased-line connection could have packets routed to and from these supercomputers and other systems that were also connected to these centers. The popularity and utility of this concept almost immediately wiped out ARPAnet with the load of data that was being transmitted. NSF then decided to build their own network based on ARPAnet's IP technology. This more advanced network was connected through 56kbps leased lines. In 1992 NSFNET's backbone was upgraded to T3 (44.736Mbps) lines around the country - 10-BaseT ethernet operates at 10Mbps.

Then internet started like that and continued to get bigger and even today the net is getting bigger because of the fact that it is very useful. The Internet has many great uses but as anything else negative things can be done there as well. The beauty of the Internet is that it is so large that it's near impossible to keep track of what bad things everyone is doing. A few examples of this are someone c

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