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  2. High Performance Computing Act of 1991 - Wikipedia

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    The Gore Bill helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, where a team of programmers, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, created the Mosaic Web browser [7] [12] in 1993, the commercial Internet's technological springboard credited as beginning the Internet boom of the 1990s.

  3. What is Section 230, the rule that made the modern internet?

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    Twenty-six words tucked into a 1996 law overhauling telecommunications have allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to grow into the giants they are today. A case coming before the U.S ...

  4. United States v. Morris (1991) - Wikipedia

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    United States v. Morris was an appeal of the conviction of Robert Tappan Morris for creating and releasing the Morris worm, one of the first Internet-based worms. This case resulted in the first conviction under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. In the process, the dispute clarified much of the language used in the law, which had been heavily ...

  5. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...

  6. Internet - Wikipedia

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    The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private , public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...

  7. Column: How L.A. really made the internet what it is

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    The story of how the internet was made doesn't begin and end with Silicon Valley. It runs right through Hollywood. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...

  8. Internet in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Cable Internet access at minimum speeds of 100 Mbit/s and up to 1 Gbit/s in most markets [89] Verizon: 8,510,000 [85] DSL access at speeds of 0.5 to 15 Mbit/s, fiber access (FiOS) at speeds of 50 Mbit/s to 2 Gbit/s, and fixed wireless broadband with speeds up to 940 Mbps [90] [91] Cox: 5,560,000 [85] Cable Internet access at speeds of 5 Mbit/s ...

  9. Telecommunications Act of 1996 - Wikipedia

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    Speeches made by senators. Library of Congress. S.652 - All Congressional Actions w/Amendments All speeches, amendments on the Senate Floor, 23 March 1995 through 8 February 1996. U.S. Senate. 104th Congr. 2nd Sess. Vote 8 — 1 February 1996 Senate passes the final revision of S.652, sent to President Clinton who signed it into law on 8 ...