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The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. (George Orwell, 1984)
TopDefinition Of The Internet
Before addressing the drawbacks explained in the introduction, it is of utmost importance to understand what the meaning of Internet is. Since the creation of the packet switched network called ARPANET until the Internet we know today, there have been major changes in the functioning of the Internet. In the beginning, the network was adopted by the United States Department of Defense and universities for research purposes (Abbate, 2000). Once the ARPANET became the Internet, it expanded quickly to the general public bringing along a number of new services.
During the first decades of the development of the Internet, its meaning in the society was shaped accordingly and unconsciously to a different form (Internet Activity Board, 1989). However, there was no official definition of the Internet for many years. The first definition of the Internet was given by the Federal Networking Council (FNC) in 1995 (Leiner et al., 2009, p. 17). The resolution of the Federal Networking Council about the Internet was the following: