The Internet The 1990’s will go down in history as the decade that witnessed the birth and explosion of a worldwide revolution. A revolution that, in a matter of a few years, affected a sizeable portion of the world’s population, not only by enriching their daily lives but by changing their very existence. This revolution has come to be known as the Internet, “a network of network’s”. What started out as a Military …showed first 75 words of 727 total…

…showed last 75 words of 727 total…medium—and that the medium becomes as essential to our daily lives as the television and the telephone, and more valuable. In sum, we seek to maximize the economic and social benefits of the Internet with industry-led, market-driven policies that allow this dynamic medium to reach its full potential. "It is more important than ever that policymakers, both in the U.S. and abroad, recognize the enormous potential economic and social benefits of the medium."