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Abstract Introduction Disinformation - A Definition The Inflation of Disinformation-Messages A non-history of disinformation Propaganda The history of propaganda The ancient Greek The Egyptians ... The Romans The Catholic Church The big "change" ... New Forms of Propaganda (in the 19th Century) World War I ... The British Propaganda Campaign in World War I The "Corpse-Conversion Factory"-rumor U.S.-Propaganda in World War I World War II ... The Post-World-War II-period The Tools of Disinformation and Propaganda Atrocity Stories Cartoons Posters Movies as a Propaganda- and Disinformation-Tool in World War I and II Radio Television Positive Images Two Examples of Disinforamtion in the Eastern Bloc White Propaganda Bandwagon Democracy A Republican Example Disinformation and the Media A Democratic Atrocity Story Doubls Bind Messages The Secret Behind It is always the others The Role of the Media Credibility Changes The Theory of the Celestro-Centric World The Right to get Disinformed Another voluntary Disinformation Globalization as a modern Disinformation An Example of commercial Disinformation on the Internet Infowar Racism on the Internet Disinformation and Science Kyoko Data Further Tools: Photography Exchange of the Text The Gulf War The Kosovo-Crisis The 2nd Chechnya-War Conclusion  INDEX CARD     RESEARCH MATRIX  World Wide Web (WWW) Probably the most significant Internet service, the World Wide Web is not the essence of the Internet, but a subset of it. It is constituted by documents that are linked together in a way you can switch from one document to another by simply clicking on the link connecting these documents. This is made possible by the Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), the authoring language used in creating World Wide Web-based documents. These so-called hypertexts can combine text documents, graphics, videos, sounds, and Java applets, so making multimedia content possible. Especially on the World Wide Web, documents are often retrieved by entering keywords into so-called search engines, sets of programs that fetch documents from as many servers as possible and index the stored information. (For regularly updated lists of the 100 most popular words that people are entering into search engines, click here). No search engine can retrieve all information on the whole World Wide Web; every search engine covers just a small part of it. Among other things that is the reason why the World Wide Web is not simply a very huge database, as is sometimes said, because it lacks consistency. There is virtually almost infinite storage capacity on the Internet, that is true, a capacity, which might become an almost everlasting too, a prospect, which is sometimes consoling, but threatening too. According to the Internet domain survey of the Internet Software Consortium the number of Internet host computers is growing rapidly. In October 1969 the first two computers were connected; this number grows to 376.000 in January 1991 and 72,398.092 in January 2000. World Wide Web History Project, http://www.webhistory.org/home.html http://www.searchwords.com/ http://www.islandnet.com/deathnet/ http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/199...