As the Web moguls see it, the Internet has evolved from a method of transmitting information to its own computing platform, as novel as the personal computer was in the late 1970s, or client-server networks were in the '80s.

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The software company claimed that it invented and marketed the identity platform and communications protocol that resellers can use to unify contact information on the Internet.

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