Network Effects: The Evolution of Online Communities
At its core, the internet is a network—a global system of computers talking to one another and exchanging information.
The internet was originally conceived by the U.S. government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, with the goal of allowing researchers using computers at one university to talk to researchers using computers at other universities.
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