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`Netted: Life Online A 10-Part Feature Series Produced by WPR News

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Many people regard the Internet as a new development, along with CD players and microwave ovens. Yet the history of the Internet actually spans back to the 1960s, when it was first conceived as an elaborate communications network for the military. The goal was to relay messages across vast distances, even in the midst of a nuclear attack.

But today, the Internet is best known for e-mail, blogs, websites, chatrooms, and media downloads. Its features have jacked up demand for personal computers, and has proven a virtual goldmine for certain businesses and communication systems. `Netted: Life Online looks at the cultural and societal influence of the Internet, upon everyday aspects such as shopping, romance, therapy, alternative media, and crime.

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Click on any link below to hear the topics covered in this ten-part series. Note that audio will only be available on the listed airdate of each segment:

• E-Commerce (airdate 10/18/05)

• Spamming (airdate 10/19/05)

• Online Romance (airdate 10/20/05)

• Blogs (airdate 10/21/05)

• Virtual Spines (airdate 10/24/05)

• Alternative/Underground Media (airdate 10/25/05)

• E-Crime (airdate 10/26/05)

• E-Therapy (airdate 10/27/05)

• Disconnected (airdate 10/28/05)

• Anti-Internet: Caveman (airdate 10/31/05)

Feature producers are Brian Bull, Gil Halsted, Sandra Harris, Shawn Johnson, Shamane Mills, Patty Murray, Micah Schweizer, Mike Simonson, and Mary Jo Wagner. Series Producer is Brian Bull.

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