In my view, the age of information and telecommunication started in 1940 with the development of computers and telecommunication and ends in 1990, when we entered the new age of entanglement, initiated by the launch of the World Wide Web and the second generation of GSM.

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About 38% of the world's population uses the internet in 2013, up from about 35% last year, according to the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency dedicated to information and communication technology.

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Iran's computer emergency response team, known as Maher, a branch of the telecommunication ministry, said on Tuesday that it was sharing research information on the virus for the first time ever on its website.

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