Introduction to the Internet

The Internet is like a giant electronic communication network that connects computer network worldwide while provides data by transmitting them through the standard Internet Protocol. The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications through out the years. It can also be easily accessed through laptop, cell phone and various modern gadgets.

Gadgets that are connected via telecommunication networks can easily send e-mails that can reach any corner of the world in a nick of time. Connecting all networks together makes data sharing to people all over the world easier and much more faster than using newspapers, through the television or any other media. Communicating with people at the end of the globe has never been easier after the internet services has gradually taking its step up and revolutionizing itself.

Not only that, contribution from different type of people like the government, industries and academia has made the Internet a great platform where everyone can access information. The invention of telegraph, telephone, radio, faxes, cell phone and computer has opened many capabilities on what the Internet can offer. For example, broadcasting capability and information dissemination has also increase with the help of the Internet.

After knowing what the Internet can do, it makes me excited to have this technology yet it worries me on what kind of harm it can potentially bring to all of us. Would it be more on the benefits? Or the negatives?





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