But as has become clear, WikiLeaks was not like the Internet it lives on: It also had a single, internal point of failure.
Human ingenuity inserted sex into online interactions early, and increasing penetrance of the internet into our lives may increase the frequency of risky sexual encounters.
Far more exciting is the possible use of the Internet to change the lives of hundreds of millions of villagers.
We are uploading our lives onto the Internet, and not really thinking about what is being done with that information.
By rendering digital photos fleeting rather than archival, Snapchat offers a face-saving alternative to our constantly tracked, unerasable lives on the Internet and a chance to reintroduce a modicum of privacy.
Their responses were passionate, expressing how enriched their lives have been by Internet communities.
As the Internet has become part of our lives, the typical web user today has accumulated dozens of accounts at different websites, each with a distinct username and password to remember.
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"I believe - perhaps erroneously - that in my own small way I'm putting a brake on the hurtling wheels of technical innovation and especially the relentless infiltration of the internet into every corner of our lives, " he wrote recently... his point only marginally undermined by the fact his comments were written for an AOL discussion page.
My kids grew up with the Internet as a normal part of their lives.
But they also recognize the central role of Internet access to people's everyday lives.
While Google want to archive the Internet, Facebook want to archive our lives.
Many of us depend on the Internet and digital tools in our daily lives -- from shopping at home and banking on our mobile devices to sharing information with friends across the globe.
Even though Internet-based technologies are improving billions of lives everywhere, some governments feel excluded and want more control.
He has no Internet connection in the warehouse loft where he lives.
Off and on for years, Russell, who lives in Texas, trolled the Internet looking for his vehicle, which was stolen in 1970 from his home at the time in Philadelphia.
This month, Google started to operate under a new privacy policy that enables the Internet giant to dig even deeper into the lives of more than one billion users.
What we find is a more complicated picture than the one presented in the technology pages and adverts, where people who do not care very much for computers or the internet are using the network in their daily lives.
Keyword advertising has evolved from an Internet novelty into an integral part of our daily lives.
Zuckerberg has said he believes Internet users will continue sharing significantly more of their lives online each year.
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Internet pioneer and Robot Wisdom author Jorn Barger now lives on the streets, surviving on a budget of less than a dollar a day.
That spending, combined with innovations like the Internet that they dreamed up earlier in their working lives, will drive the U.S. economy to new heights, Dent says.
For this age group, the internet will remain the most dominant medium in their lives, as it will be for the following generation who even at primary school are using the web to do their homework.
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Well the year 2000 was the year the Internet was expected to start affecting all our financial lives - shops, banks, even the government were telling us that doing things on line would become the way.
We depend on the Internet and digital tools for many aspects of our daily lives.
While deploying IPv6 is a significant undertaking for all organizations, if done properly, individual Internet users will hardly notice the difference in their daily lives.
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In the mid-90s, ARPANet was transformed from a military safety net to the civilian Internet that has become such an integral part of our lives, bringing with it change not only technological, but societal and epic in scope.
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"He envisioned the prevalence of the Internet many years before it became a crucial part of our lives, " she says.
Older people who are wary of the internet (and who still hold on to the fantasy their lives are private) are more cautious and suspicious of sharing too much information publicly.
If the recipient lives in a state that prohibits over-the-internet alcohol sales, he or she will be offered the option to choose a different gift.
Mrs Harbin has received more than 200 messages from people about how he changed their lives and many more tributes have been paid on the internet including YouTube.
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