The Internet and the evolution of news
The growth of the internet, by any measure, over the last decades has been astonishing. For the telephone it took 75 years to attain 50 million users, for television it took 13 years, and for the web it took just 5 years. In a few brief decades the internet has progressed from a vague technological novelty to being as essential and basic to our livelihood as electricity. Over the past decades we have seen how the Internet has transformed almost every aspect of society and industry, from entertainment to news, business to politics, and commerce to communications…
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