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The Internet

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Blanket yourself in the brightly colored, pixelated glow that makes up the internets most popular websites.

The internet forms a vital part of the evolving world. An entity, a "phenomena", a tool that exists itself not physically, but yet surrounds all of us and either directly or indirectly effects our daily lives. With the internet one can live a life never needing to leave his or her own home. Looking for a job? Post your resumé on monster.com and become a webmaster. Want a job that doesn't really require any etiquette or, well, work? Try your hand at partypoker.com. Hungry? Order a pizza at papajohns.com or get some Frosted Flakes at simondelivers.com. Dont know what the hell brobdingnagian means? You can find the definition at dictionary.com. Lonely? Looking for love? Make yourself out to be whoever you want and find the perfect match at eharmony.com. Or are you just looking for a shoulder to cry on? Sign on to AOL and instant message your friend "joniloveschachiguy24" and let it all out. The tool to do all of this though relies in the composition of the world wide web, it's framework. And this lies partly in the servers and the domains, the meat and potatoes of this nonphysical structure. But the most important factor in this equation is people, the 1's and 0's that make up a persons identity in this metaphorical world. This makes up both the framework and clockwork of the internet. One can argue that because people are unpredictable (what they deem important) they should not be considered a part of a system that is defined by stability and complete predictability. But the constant evolution of the internet revolves around its ability to entice visitors/customers/members and keep them interested, to fulfill what they find substantial. The vast and ever-expanding phenomenon that is the internet has become in just a relatively short lifetime, the axis for which the global community revolves around.

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