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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 100 years of radiodiffusion |
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5 The Internet existed forever: books and printed press have always been |
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6 around for communicating ideas and information, and evolved |
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7 progressively to become what the Internet is today. |
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8 . |
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10 Letters were carried by messengers riding horses, postal train, or |
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11 airplanes. Long-range communication evolved slowly for a long time, |
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12 but has accelerated rapidly in recent years, until today extreme |
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13 bandwidth and latency. |
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14 . |
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15 .PP |
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16 The common pattern: a new discovery in electronics permits a new way |
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17 to communicate information over a long-distance, with a lightning-fast |
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18 adoption all around the world: |
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20 .IP "1919 " |
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21 wireless telegraphy and music transmission in Germany, Netherland |
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22 and United-States |
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23 . |
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24 .IP "1920 " |
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25 daily radio programmes in England, United-States and USSR |
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26 . |
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27 .IP "1921 " |
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28 radio broadcasting from Eiffel Tower with 900 W power intensity |
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30 .IP "1922 " |
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31 foundation of the BBC and arrival of 2000 W broadcastings |
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32 . |
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33 .PP |
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34 A few years before, the long-range communication tool of choice was |
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35 paper. |
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38 A few years later, the telephone and television started to develop. |
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