CS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dynamic Routing, Content-Control Software, Wi-Fi
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The internet emerged in the mid 1990s as a powerful new mass medium. Anyone with a computer can tap into a network. A few clicks of a mouse button will bring in vast quantities of information and entertainment that originate all over the world. In some ways the internet resembles a traditional mass medium that send messages from a central transmission point, it is much more interactive and participatory. Fueled by accelerated miniaturization of equipment and the ability to compress data into tiny digital bits for storage and transmission. Every major mass media company has put products on the internet. Stats canada estimates the number of internet users in canada in 2006 was 17 million 68% of the population. In 2006 advertisers spent million for space on the internet. There are people who have given up reading the print edition of newspapers and instead browse through the internet edition. Some of the news sites are updated constantly.
