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Discovery: Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet: Dark Side of the World Wide Web

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Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet

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Did the World Wide Web's Utopian ideals 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 chat rooms 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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Discovery: Aleks in Wonderland: The History of the Internet

Aleks Krotoski asks: How did the Internet become the most powerful communications medium on the planet?

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