COM 107 Final Project:
A Study of Government, Military, and Commercial Defense Contractor use of the Internet
Done by: Aaron Anderer & Carly Beardsley
Lab #4
Since the conception of the ARPANET, which led to the current Internet we know and love, was conceived close to 25 years ago,
the government has been involved on a large scale. Now that the Internet has gone commercial, various companies and government
agencies have decided to use the World Wide Web as a purveyor of information for their organizations. Once only the domain of
academics and computer scientists/engineers, this new medium allows an organization to take on a virtual identity and provide information
about itself that it decides that they want to release. Besides being an extremely good tool for communicating very rich information content,
it is also a tool for expression. The World Wide Web as a medium spurred the almost exponential growth of the Internet through the
use of a popular user interface paradigm.
Below are links to government, military, and commercial defense contractor sites that illustrate how the government and the military-industrial
complex have embraced the medium as a way to exchange data.
Links to related sites.
Who are these guys?
Aaron Anderer (anderer@ecst.csuchico.edu)
Carly Beardsley (carlyly@aol.com)