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 Internet Turns 40
  By Allan Holmes
09/01/09 12:42 pm ET
  Robert Charette, a risk management consultant and a contributor 
to Tech
Insider and Government Executivest magazine noted

on his Risk Factor blog that Sept.  2, 2009, marks the 40th 
anniversary
of the "official" creation of the Internet, or its predecessor, 
ARPANET
  Charette wrote that
at about the same time articles appeared on the 40th anniversary 
of the
Internet, touting its initial intent "to openly and freely 
exchange
information among scientists and engineers," articles were 
published
recognizing other milestones such as:
  * Internet users in the United States watched 21.4 billion 
videos in
  July and the average online video viewer watched 8.3 hours of 
video.
  * The video game company Electronic Arts proudly announced that 
its
  Battlefield 1943 customers had killed more than 43 million 
enemies
  in just one week:
  * Google said it now lists 330,000 Web sites as being 
malicious,
  more than double the150,000 a year ago.
  * The London Daily Express discussed various Internet- and
  technology-related injuries people now have that they didn't 40
  years ago.


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