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Internet is at the heart of information age. It is a global network of billions of computers and other electronic devices. Over last few decades, Internet has revolutionised the human living by bringing in major changes in patterns of communications and has also made enormous amount of information available to the society. Internet also gets referred as a ‘network of networks’. During 1970s, the development of Internet happened in the United States, initially as a system for military utility and for other specific uses.
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Lele, A. (2021). Quantum Internet. In: Quantum Technologies and Military Strategy. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72721-5_6
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