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=Connecting the World Online= = = Team Members go to your assigned team page. =TEAM A= =TEAM B= =TEAM C=

This flattener is identified as our ability to not only author our own content, but to send it worldwide with the 1995 launch of the Internet. Netscape and the Web broadened the audience for the Internet from its roots as a communications medium used primarily by 'early adopters and geeks' to something that made the Internet accessible to everyone from five-year-olds to eighty-five-year olds. (8/9/1995)
 * The New Age of Connectivity** - //Flattener #2, p 60-77//
 * Overview of topic**
 * Development of the Internet: low-cost global connectivity
 * The emergence of the World Wide Web: Individuals able to post content for world viewing
 * Spread of the commercial Web browser: Netscape and others, able to display WWW content on any computer, development of protocols enabling devices to talk to one another
 * Ideas related to this topic**
 * Global Perspective on Internet connectivity
 * Digital divide issues
 * Standards and policies for use of the Internet and the WWW: comparing differences between countries
 * Development of eCommerce, dot-com boom and bust
 * Development of social interaction and communication between individuals via the Internet


 * Connecting the World Online, ideas to get started**
 * Provide a perspective from your country on Internet connectivity: development, access methods and statistics
 * Conduct a digital divide comparison and discussion based on country and regional news and issues (Are there digital divides between countries, within the countries themselves? What is the impact of limited Internet availability on education and industry?)