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By technological standards, the Internet is still "new"; it has been a mere 30 years since it was first introduced in the form of a primitive network of four computers called ARPANET (1969). It wasn't until 1982, with the creation of USENET, that the Internet (still not referred to as such) became even remotely known to the then elite computer-literate public, seven years more before the first commercial dial-up Internet access provider was introduced (1989), and three more before Internet communication was made easily available to private users (1992). Since 1992, with its excruciatingly slow and unreliable 900 baud-rate modems, the Internet has quickly made the inevitable jump from being a luxury item reserved for those who could afford it to finally becoming an affordable necessity to everyday life, all within eight years of becoming publicly available. The benefits of this "new" technology are awe-inspiring in their number, but affect the private user mostly in the way!s that it has changed our methods of communication. Arguably, Internet communication (including BBS, e-mail, and chat services) has been most beneficial to mankind by making it so much easier to communicate with friends a
And what about sex? Thankfully, Internet communication has provided a method for avoiding all of the uncomfortable, embarrassing moments and expensive gifts associated with dating, not to mention all of those painful emotions and the risk of contracting a nasty virus. To think that only ten years ago people actually had to touch each other to have sex - disgusting! Now we can have cyber sex with any number of people at any time of the day or night with no risk of emotional attachment or sexually transmitted disease. In fact, there are currently over four million known cases of AIDS in the world today, and not even one was the result of cyber sex. Even better is the absolute anonymity of it all. We no longer have to worry whether or not our partner for the evening (or afternoon) is even remotely good looking, or even of the opposite sex. They are, in the words of Heidi Fleiss, "whatever we want them to be." Just contemplate the sexual inhibitions and pesky moral constr! These are, of course, only a few of the many ways the Internet has benefited mankind. There are also untold benefits, like being able to avoid doing "real research" in unhealthy places like libraries, and a
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