Labels:hakham | laptop | monitor | reckoner | road | sky | window OCR: SECTION A CHAPTER What caused the sudden upswing in computer ownership? The second phase of the digital revolution materialized when the Internet was opened to public use. The Internet is a global computer network origi- nally developed as military project, then handed over to the National Science Foundation for research and academic use. When commercial Internet use was first allowed in 1995 companies such as AOL and CompuServe began to offer Internet access and e-mail to quickly growing list of subscribers E-mail, form of electronic communication, was an application for the masses and finally reason to buy computer and join the digital revolution In addition to e-mail, the Internet offers many ways for people to communi- cate and interact. The Internet has turned the idea of social isola ...
