Abstract
The evolution of the Internet up till now can be divided, roughly speaking, into three phases:
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Pre-Web. Direct, immediate interchange of small bits of text, via e-mail and Usenet. Indirect, delayed interchange of large amounts of text, visual images and computer programs, via ftp.
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Web. Direct, immediate interchange of images, sounds, and large amounts of text. Online publishing of articles, books, art and music. Interchange of computer programs, via ftp, is still delayed, indirect, and architecture-dependent.
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Network Computing. Direct, immediate interchange of animations and computer programs as well as large texts, images and sounds. Enabled by languages such as Java, the Internet becomes a real-time software resource. Intelligent agents traverse the web carrying out specialized intelligent operations for their owners.
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Goertzel, B. (2002). The Network is the Computer is the Mind (is the World). In: Creating Internet Intelligence. International Federation for Systems Research International Series on Systems Science and Engineering, vol 18. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0561-7_6
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