The Internet

Visualize a place where people can interact in business situations, play video games, do research, and get tutoring. Now imagine that there are no office buildings, or shopping centers, no arcades, no libraries, and there are no schools. These places all exist in a location called the Internet - "an unrestrained system of public and private computer networks that traverse the world. This technological advance not only services people of the present but also brings forward future innovations. People use the Internet for many motives. However, there are three popular reasons.

First, there is sending and receiving messages through the mail.

Second, there are conversation groups with a wide span of topics in which people can join.

Finally, people can browse into the huge collection of resources or databases of the World Wide Web

Electronic mail freely, which brings an extraordinary understanding of the way of communication. Although it did not reinstate the traditional means of communication such as letters and telephone calls, it has built a new method of disseminating information more efficiently. E-mail conserves time between the duration of sending and receiving a message. Sending an e-mail message halfway around the world can arrive at its objective within a minute.

In comparison, a letter can take a few days or a couple of weeks, according to the range it travels. Also, e-mail is cheap. The cost of connection to the Internet is somewhat cheap. E-mail is both time-saving and cost-effective.

Discussion groups are a great way to communicate with others in the world and to broaden the knowledge of a person's horizon. The response is immediate just like the telephone except it is typed. Discussion groups are on-line services that make use of typed communication in the awareness of the user. Services can vary from tutor sessions to chat-lines where people want to mingle. Communication through the Internet is a way of meeting new people. There is no ethical judgment in a meeting on the Internet because physical appearance is not perceived. However, behavior and personal characteristics are apparent from the style in which a person types.

This kind of communication helps lessen the gap between people and cultural disparities. Communicating in conversation groups sometimes head to even one-to- one conversation that soon enough becomes a friendship. Connections are made when people meet each other, therefore, information on interest Web sites can be transmitted.

The World Wide Web (WWW) holds information that answers questions to the user. The purpose of the WWW is to give a mixture of music varying from literature to world geography. WWW comprises Web sites that are established by government agencies and institutions to business companies and someones. WWW carries text, graphics, and sound to catch the interest of people browsing through the different Web sites. These Web sites are being added daily, while the occurring sites are being amended to compensate for more updated information and interests. This growth of information will shortly become a world library of topics on anything that one can visualize. A person using the Internet for one day discovers more information than a person reading in the library for a whole year. It is the convenience of the Internet that allows a person to go through a vast amount of information in a short time. This information community can pull the minds of users closer together, thus making the world tinier.

The Internet is full of people who are wishing and giving out information to the ones who are inIerested, hence, "information wants to be free." - Stewart Brand Hypothetically, if everyone is attached to at least one other person on the Internet, someday everyone will meet each other. In other words, the world will slowly grow into a "global village" that can be defined as "the world, especially of the ate 1900s thought of as a village, a condition occurring from a shrinking distance by instantaneous world-wide electronic communication."

Thus, the Internet is an amazing tool and tool in which people can interact with the information society. After all, information is like the building blocks of technological advancement.