Managing Information Systems

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and could guarantee that we could still fire our own nuclear missiles in our defense. Soon major schools and corporations threw their hats into the race for a network in which information could be sent electronically. Throughout the seventies a couple of schools developed their own network in which they could communicate with each other and devices were designed to make networks within offices possible using a technology called Ethernet. Throughout the eighties the newly designed internet was mainly used by science foundations, colleges, and the government as they worked together with growing computer and telephone companies to help advance the technology. It wasn’t until the early nineties when the Internet started to look the way it does now, with the first Internet society and the founding of the World Wide Web in 1991. Since then the Internet has been growing, getting faster, and finding its way into more and more peoples lives every day.
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which once had to be written out and sent throughout the corporation wasting valuable time and paper. Extranets are semiprivate networks that allow others from outside different corporations to access to certain information as needed to accomplish tasks or so others can collaborate on different problems. This is allowing more people to access information that they might need at their office from their home or even another country. But with this freedom also comes the threat of others who hack their way into certain information that is not meant to be seen by those outside of the corporation.
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