The aim of this essay is to outline and analyze milestones in the history of the Internet. As technology advances, it … presents new societal and ethical challenges. Section II concerns the formative years (1957-1984). The early Internet was … in cutting-edge research. Section III discusses the entry of the Internet into the commercial phase (1984-1989). It was …

Japan and the Internet Revolution challenges the portrait of Japan as a technologically slow-moving nation, lacking in … of the Internet, promoters and entrepreneurs managed to create a flexible and dynamic Internet society. From a slow start …, Japan has emerged as the global leader in the mobile internet, the host of arguably the strongest nation-specific web …