Disliking the Internet
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The indiscriminate development of Web sites that feature only trivial and trashy information has made many Internet users wary of the system. Indiscriminate Web site development only adds to the congestion of the system as well as the use of the system to propagate 'pseudo-science'.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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Preserving the Internet
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The Internet Archive project aims to gather all accessible information in Web sites for storage and later use in historical studies. Archiving is done by a search engine which follows each cross-link, storing information from each site before moving to the next.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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The Internet: bringing order from chaos
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The greatest challenge and research area for computer scientist is to organize the Internet into a repository that permits easy and logical access to information. Such access would make information on the Internet truly useful.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1997
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