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The World Wide Web

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The World Wide Web, propelled by various social media programs like Twitter, FaceBook and Instagram, has become a double-edged sword in the era of Web 2.0. This double-edged sword can be symbolized by SENDERS of information, and RECEIVERS of information.

In its early days, the primary use of the WWW was searching for information, on static ‘pages’, to fulfill a particular need or request. Maps, phone numbers, product information, and the like, were available to anyone who searched for it. The WWW was a functional, up-to-date encyclopedia of information, available with the stroke of a keyboard, at the sender’s request.

During this time, search devices like Navigator, Google, Yahoo and their many imitators, worked by allowing one person (the sender) to find information about a multitude (the receivers). Hence the origin of the company’s name synonymous with the Internet, Google. Send a request; Google will find an answer. It will even tell you how long it took to answer the question!

In a real sense, the days of the early WWW could be characterized as follows: Go on the Internet, and find what you are looking for. In split second time.

Today, in the era of Web 2.0, the many forms of social media programs have caused a distinct reversal in the most basic operation of the WWW. The roles of sender and receiver have been reversed.

The sender is now the collector of information, gathered from data, from cookies, for sale to anyone willing to pay the

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