What will replace the Internet?
For the time being, nothing. What will be replaced, though, are the slow, annoying connections. The future is fast-paced and wireless, as we've been seeing with Internet-enabled cell phones. It won't stop there though. Get ready for Internet-enabled cars, houses, and WIDGETs. What is a WIDGET? Find out in a special TIME article by Vinton Cerf, one of inventors of the Internet.
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    web resources
    The History of Silicon Valley
    Provides information on the place where it all started

    Vissing Kommunikation
    The Internet, Past, Present, and Future

    Gnutella
    Gnutella is a real-time-search, peer-based file-sharing client that allows a user to search for and download files from other Gnutella users