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Aleks in Wonderland: The Story of the Internet

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Aleks Krotoski unravels the complexity of the internet.

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Aleks in Wonderland: The Story of the Internet: Series 1: The World Wide Villain

23/08/2017

The World Wide Villain

Series 1

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Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals spread crime and obscenity?

The coming of the world wide web in the 1990s opened up internet access to everybody. Aleks Krotoski asks if the web's utopian ideas spread crime and obscenity.

With the coming of the World Wide Web in the 1990s internet access opened up to everybody, it was no longer the preserve of academics and computer hobbyists.
Already prior to the web, the burgeoning internet user groups and chatrooms had tested what was acceptable behaviour online, but access was still limited. 

Aleks Krotoski asks whether the Web through enabling much wider use of the internet is the villain of the piece in facilitating not just entertainment and commerce, but all aspects of the darker side, from malicious computer hacking attacks, worms and viruses, to new channels for criminality, online extortion and identity theft.

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