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Don't slip through the net

¹ Web Editor, JNNP, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK; rustam.al-shahi@ed.ac.uk
² Editor, JNNP, Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Charing Cross Hospital, Fulham Place Road, London W6 8RF, UK; c.kennard@ic.ac.uk

Keywords: internet; internet trends; NeuronLine

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It is possible to thrive in the modern world without recourse to the internet. But only just. If you are a "technophobe", deterred by the daunting size and complexity of this continually evolving medium, JNNP could help you become a "technophile".

Fewer than four decades ago, the cold war motivated the creation of the internet. Academic inspiration subsequently harnessed the internet's potential in its two best-known components: email and the world wide web. Born of a need for communication and maturing through a hunger for information, these two human desires have made the internet indispensable.

The overwhelming size of the internet makes it a formidable repository of knowledge. The figure below shows the Internet Software Consortium's latest internet domain survey (www.isc.org), which estimates that there are >160 million "hosts" and that their greatest proliferation has occurred in the last four years.

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