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Internet Geographic Distribution
The geographic distribution of the Internet continues to spread, around the world and even beyond. A key attribute of the Internet is that once you have connected to any part of it, you can communicate with all of it. All of the Internet's technologies -- web, newsgroups, email, mailing lists, IRC, MUD's -- enable geographically distributed groups of people to communicate who otherwise couldn't do so. Largely because the basic architecture of the Internet is open -- fundamentally designed to connect new networks -- this powerful communication medium has spread rapidly to interconnect our world and turned it into a true multi-way electronic global village. The rapid geographic distribution of the Internet is having the same effect on our civilization as previous inventions that have dramatically expanded the geographic boundaries of our communication abilities, each making the world just a bit smaller, such as the following:
The Internet is the latest and most powerful such invention, with a current distribution to every corner of this planet, and already inevitably moving into space. |