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Speaker 1: Get in touch with technology with tech Stuff from how

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Speaker 1: stuff What dot com. Hello again, everyone, and welcome to

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Speaker 1: tech Stuff. My name is Chris Poulette and I am

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Speaker 1: an editor at how Stuff works dot com. Sitting across

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Speaker 1: from me, as usual, is senior writer Jonathan's Strickland. Hey there, yes,

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Speaker 1: and our story starts long long ago when a single

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Speaker 1: celled organism developed into the first web browser. No. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so you know there's this guy, Tim burns Lee works

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Speaker 1: Dude came up with this neat way of displaying information

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Speaker 1: using a network connections, which would eventually blossom into the

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Speaker 1: beautiful flower we know as the World Wide Web. We

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Speaker 1: probably don't call it that so frequently anymore, if you

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Speaker 1: if you read like the stuff from the the early

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Speaker 1: nineties Worldwide Web and Information super Highway with that, they

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Speaker 1: seem to be required in every single news story. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: we've started a little loopy here, but yeah, it's it's clear,

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Speaker 1: and we haven't we we haven't mentioned it in quite

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Speaker 1: that the Internet is basically a medium of UH communication

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Speaker 1: between computers. It's it's a network of networks. UH. Your

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Speaker 1: computer hooks up to the Internet and you can send

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Speaker 1: information in a number of different ways. A lot of

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Speaker 1: them are our pass a now or or less used

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Speaker 1: than others. I mean people like Gopher or using UH

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Speaker 1: people just don't do that very much. Using that is

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Speaker 1: people are using fault transfer protocol sure sure, um. The

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Speaker 1: different instant messenger protocols, they they're none of these are

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Speaker 1: the Worldwide Web. The world Wide Web basically puts a

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Speaker 1: very public pretty face on it, in some cases less

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Speaker 1: than pretty, especially if you don't like crawling graphics and

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Speaker 1: and midi files. This is the old you know, this

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Speaker 1: the world wide webin Internet were synonymous. Not really the case.

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Speaker 1: But we wanted to talk about a particular browser and

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Speaker 1: actually it was the power Player for a while, or

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Speaker 1: we're talking about Firefox in general. But to to understand

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Speaker 1: go back quite a ways, well before there was ever

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Speaker 1: and it seems kind of crazy. I mean, we're recording

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