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7. Practice Safe Surfing

Carey Parker1 
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North Carolina, USA
 

It’s hard to believe that the World Wide Web is more than 25 years old. While technically launched in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee, most people didn’t really know about it until the mid-1990s. The Web as we know it today really took off in the late 1990s with the “dot-com” boom and subsequent bust. We’ve come a long way since the early days of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator (the first popular web browsers). Web pages have gone from simple blocks of text and hyperlinks to amazingly powerful and complex web sites that can do just about anything. Many of the tasks that were relegated to heavyweight ...

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