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    A computer is a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data. Computers have both positive and negative impacts. Positively, they take over mundane tasks, increase productivity, enable new technologies like credit cards and space travel, and allow for global communication. Negatively, they can increase stress, mainly create skilled jobs, make people dependent, and reduce social interaction. Email was originally developed for the ARPANET as a way to distribute messages electronically between users over a network. It allows for socially anonymous and insensible interactions but can also facilitate intimacy and falling in love online through improper language and lack of nonverbal cues. The history of the internet began with J.C.R

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    A computer is a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data. Computers have both positive and negative impacts. Positively, they take over mundane tasks, increase productivity, enable new technologies like credit cards and space travel, and allow for global communication. Negatively, they can increase stress, mainly create skilled jobs, make people dependent, and reduce social interaction. Email was originally developed for the ARPANET as a way to distribute messages electronically between users over a network. It allows for socially anonymous and insensible interactions but can also facilitate intimacy and falling in love online through improper language and lack of nonverbal cues. The history of the internet began with J.C.R

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    A computer is a programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data. Computers have both positive and negative impacts. Positively, they take over mundane tasks, increase productivity, enable new technologies like credit cards and space travel, and allow for global communication. Negatively, they can increase stress, mainly create skilled jobs, make people dependent, and reduce social interaction. Email was originally developed for the ARPANET as a way to distribute messages electronically between users over a network. It allows for socially anonymous and insensible interactions but can also facilitate intimacy and falling in love online through improper language and lack of nonverbal cues. The history of the internet began with J.C.R

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    What is a Computer?

    - Programmable electronic device that can store, retrieve, and process data.
    Positive Impact of Computer
    • Computers take over mundane tasks
    • Higher productivity
    • Credit Cards, Space Travel, Medical Research
    • New Jobs created from New Technology
    • Global Communication
    • Information Highway
    Negative Impact of Computer
    • Fast paced business, More Stress.
    • Creates skilled jobs only.
    • Dependency on Computers.
    • Lack of more intimate social interaction.
    • Health Issues.
    Email
    -Early email was developed as an application on the ARPANET for complex
    mixture of Cold War military.
    -messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or
    more recipients via a network.
    Psychological Effect of Email:
    Socially anonymous
    • Public identity are not revealed immediately.
    • Invent an alternate version of one’s self or someone else.
    • More comfortable.
    • Social interaction and sometimes intimacy
    Socially insensible
    • Rude by using improper and abusive languages
    • Falling in love through Internet forums, chat room, instant messages and
    emails.
    Online Language
    • Express affective and speedy conversation
    • Don’t follow correct grammars or spelling.
    • Emotion icons or “smileys” serves facial expression over the Internet

    History of the Internet


    • J.C.R Licklider – “Galactic Network” Concept
    • Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)
    • Pursuit of technological advancement, mainly for military use
    • ARPANET and packet switching
    Growth of the Internet
    • Growth of internet doubled every year since 1996
    • Usage of internet spans from academics to business to recreation.
    • HTML and HTTP

    Year TB/Month

    1990 1.0

    1991 2.0

    1992 4.4

    1993 8.3

    1994 16.3

    1995 ?

    1996 1,500

    1997 2,500 – 4,000

    1998 5,000 – 8,000


    1999 10,000 – 16,000

    2000 20,000 – 35,000

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