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Throughout history, fads in technology have come and gone with little impact. Remember flash-in-the-pan technologies such as eight-track tape machines, Betamax video systems, and laser disc players? With this in mind, many people were reluctant to quickly and wholeheartedly embrace the Internet. First-generation personal computers were difficult to use and nearly impossible to update, had a high price tag, and came with little or no working software. A modem was an expensive piece of optional equipment that transferred data between computers at a snail’s pace. The initial resistance to the “Information Superhighway,” as the Internet was originally known, is therefore not unfounded.
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Smith RP. The Internet for Physicians, 3rd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002.
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Allen, J.W. (2002). What Can the Internet Do for Me?. In: The Internet for Surgeons. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88424-5_3
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