37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
It would be difficult, if not impossible to imagine existence without the World Wide Web. It is so very much a part of our daily lives. We take it for granted. Equally, not many of us are aware or even care to educate ourselves about the genesis of this indispensable part of our existence. Efforts began in Western, particularly US, Universities in the 1950s and 1960s to link computers, catalog libraries and later for military operations. The World Wide Web, as we know it today, is perhaps quarter of a century old.
Existence without the World Wide Web is indeed unimaginable today. More important, should this public good suddenly not be available any longer, the destabilization and chaos that would ensue would also be difficult to imagine.
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