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The Internet and
TRUE or
FALSE?

the World Wide Web

are the same thing

The Internet
slows down when
other continents
SOCIAL NETWORKING
wake up and log on.
The 21st century has seen the
rise of social networking. The
number of people signed up
on Facebook—a website used by
friends to keep in touch—reached
two billion in 2017. Another hugely
popular site, Twitter, has more
than 328 million members sharing
short messages called “tweets.”

Early computers filled up a
room, but today’s microtechnology
has resulted in light, portable
smartphones, tablets, and laptop
computers. As computers have
gotten smaller, so has the world.
The Internet has given its users
the opportunity to be in constant
contact across the continents,
with shared access to live news,
real-time conversations, and a
vast archive of online information.

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