ABSTRACT

The Internet started as a technological revolution, designed to protect national interests by ensuring redundancy and resiliency in governmental networks, particularly in time of war. It has spawned a worldwide cultural revolution, fostering universal communication exchange with limitless geographic, time, and subject matter boundaries. The extent and ease of the Internet’s adoption has had profound implications on all aspects of life-personal, business, and governmental. There is no place on Earth that cannot be reached by the Internet.