HOW IS INTERNET USE
HOW IS INTERNET USE?
INTRODUCTION:
SOURCE: http://en.wikipedia.org
As the internet has grown, it has developed into a multifaceted tool with a vast range of uses. It's now easy to
keep in touch with friends, publish your own
articles, or even watch your favorite
TV shows using the internet.
In this lesson, we'll talk about some of the ways the Internet is used today, including
blogs,
social networking,
instant messaging,
VoIP, and
media.
Uses of Internet
Internet has been the most useful technology of the modern
times which helps us not only in our daily lives, but also our personal
and professional lives developments. The internet helps us achieve this
in several different ways.
For the students and educational purposes the internet is
widely used to gather information so as to do the research or add to the
knowledge of any sort of subject they have. Even the business personals
and the professions like doctors, access the internet to filter the
necessary information for their use. The internet is therefore the
largest encyclopedia for everyone, in all age categories.
The internet has served to be more useful in maintaining
contacts with friends and relatives who live abroad permanently. The
easiest communication means like the internet chatting systems and the
emails are the best and the most common for the maintaining contacts
with the people around the world.
Not to forget internet is useful in providing with most of the
fun these days. May it be all the games, and networking conferences or
the online movies, songs, dramas and quizzes, internet has provided the
users with a great opportunity to eradicate the boredom from their
lives.
Internet is also used to upgrade the internet and use special
software to work on the projects and documentation works as the internet
enables the user to download a myriad of different software for a
variety of different purposes, making it much easier than buying the
costly software cds.
USE FOR COMMUNICATION
SOURCE http://wiki.answers.com
The Internet could be used for communication in many different ways. For
example, email messages are sent over the internet. When people make
websites, that is using the internet to communicate information to the
readers. The internet can also be used for instant messaging (texting)
or even Voice over Internet Provider (VoIP) which allows live
video/audio conversations with people across the internet at other
computers or even telephones.
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Web Browser is a type of software that retrieves and presents
information resources on the internet. The information resource can be
text, image, sound, video, or other type of content.
In a simple way, we can describe a web browser as a type of software that we use to ‘surf’ the internet.
These are some examples of web browsers, each with their own plus and minuses:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Opera
- Safari
- Google Chrome
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search engine is designed to search for information on the internet.
Search engine presents the search results in the form of a search
results list. The search results can be web pages, images, videos, and
other type of files.
To gather and present the searched
information, each search engines has their own algorithm, or combination
of algorithmic and human input.
Google.com is currently the most popular and frequently used search engine.