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Religion And The World Wide We - Research Paper

Religion And The World Wide We

The Internet began as the ARPANET during the cold war in 1969. It was developed by the US Department of Defense's (DOD) research people in conjunction with a number of military contractors and universities to explore the possibility of a communication network that could survive a nuclear attack. It continued simply because the DOD, it's contractors, and the universities found that it provided a very convenient way to communicate. In 1990, HTML, a hypertext Internet protocol which could communicate the graphic information on the Internet, was introduced. Each individual could create graphic pages (a Web site), which then became part of a huge, virtual hypertext network called the World Wide ...

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causing religion splint off�s (Wright).
The WWW should not be blamed for starting all-modern splint off�s, but should be also commended for providing extensive religious information sites. For instance www.religion-online.org was developed to provide an extensive library of hundreds of entries, presenting many different points of view, but all written from the perspective of sound scholars (Fore 1999). This web site lets professors and the general public learn about any religion. The quest for knowledge is universal and this web site fulfills that quest.
Most sites that solely provide information are not to blame for these so-called religion splint off�s. Since January 1, 1999 more than 30,000 visitors from 76 countries have downloaded more than 100,000 documents from www.religion-online.org, including inquiries from more than 400 colleges, universities and schools of theology (Fore 1999). I do not believe that visitors to this site leave with a sense of confusion, therefore ...

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Added: 5/21/2007 08:35:24 AM
Category: World History
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