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The Internet: The Communication and Media Platform of this Millenium

The Internet started out in the second half of the last century as a distributed communications platform being developed by the military. The idea was to use a network that could route information even if one or more nodes of the networks was taken out for whatever reason. Today the Internet has developed into a major communications platform that is taking market and mind share in all aspects of day to day life. Television, Newspapers, Magazines, The High Street - All of these marketplaces (and more besides) are finding the Internet is vigorously taking up market share. Now with Broadband Internet connections becoming more and more usual - the Internet is becoming ever more attractive as a channel of commerce for the consumer.

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