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This 3-page paper discusses Janet Abbate's Inventing the Internet. The paper takes one of Abbate's assertions, namely that the Internet has been responsible for the creation of certain other technologies, and compares this assertion to the developments and advances fostered during the industrial revolution of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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its beginnings in the 1960s as a tool for the military to its present day frenzy) in a way that is more historical than mythological. Abbates focus on the Internet
also involves a focus on ancillary networking technologies it also launched. For example, Netscape never would have come about had it not been for the Internet. In short, Abbate focuses
on the idea that commercial users of the Internet (as well as their academic counterparts) ended up taking technologies offered by the Internet and moving them into different directions (directions
that were sometimes unanticipated). What well try to do in this paper is compare Abbates assertion that the Internet launched some new
and interesting technologies as auxiliaries to the idea that the same thing happened 100 years ago, with the industrial revolution. For one
thing, as the Internet changed our perceptions of the world, allowing us pretty much to go online and chat with almost anyone in almost any time zone, the late 19th
and early 20th centuries saw almost the same thing happen. The industrial revolution brought about more mobile populations, for one thing. When society was still agrarian, families and neighbors pretty
much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew up on the same land,
and so on. Yet when factories and mass production came into play, new job opportunities opened up. Urban centers were suddenly the place to be (for living, work and play).
During this period, we saw a great many people leaving the farmland for better paying jobs in the cities (although the quality of life in these cities at the time
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