The Internet has been around for 34 years now, in its most basic form. Originally developed in the ’60’s by a government agency to facilitate communication in the event of nuclear attack, it hit its stride with the development of TCP/IP by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn in 1974. Despite the Net having reached the 1/3 Century mark, there are still folks who don’t know the rudiments of Internet safety or manners.

This is partly a function of the exponential expansion of the Internet, the World Wide Web and the proliferation of computers and computer users, but it is also due — in unnecessarily large part — to the ignorance of some of those users. Since those are also the ones who are most likely to mindlessly forward their worms, trojans, viruses and other malware to their friends, and send all those friends’ Email addresses along to whoever wants to collect and use them, they contribute to a great many of the problems currently extant on the Net. Simple Steps To Avoid “Spam” And Reduce Internet Clutter ~ Digital Zen

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