INTERNET

What is internet?

Internet is a global system that connects all computer networks (a group of computer that connected to each other for the purpose of communication). It served billion of users worldwide using the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). TCP/IP is a network of networks that consists of millions public and private, government network of local to global, academic and business that are linked by abroad array of optical networking technologies. The internet contains a lot and advance of information, resources and services that can be found easily.

Nowadays, the technology of internet reshaped or redefined most of traditional communication media such as television services and telephone. It makes them better and easy. Now, we can make a call to everyone using the internet through ‘Skype’ and we also can watch our favorite television drama by just simply surf the internet and go to the website such as www.tv3.com.my. Newspaper publishing also has been replaced by web sites, blogging and web feeds.

Uses of internet

It cannot be denied that internet gave a lot of benefits and advantages to human being. It can be use for many purposes in terms of education, businesses and also job or working areas. Internet has a search engine to help users to find what they are looking for easily and fast. A search engine is designed to search for information on the internet. Search engine will present the search result whether in form of images, web pages, videos and other types of file in the form of a search result list. Usually, people use either Yahoo or Google.com to search information. Google.com is currently the most popular and frequently used search engine.

Besides, internet also has a web browsers or an internet browser which is a type of software that retrieves and present information resources on the internet. The information resources can be text, images, sound, video or other type of content. Some examples of web browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Apple Safari and also Google Chrome.

Internet is benefit in information searching, communication services and data transfer or file sharing. Users can use internet to find or search information using the web browsers software such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Apple safari and Google Chrome. This web browsers software helps users to connect from one web page to another to search information. Users can use it to search anything. Students will use it to search information in order to make their assignments done. Employers and employees also will surf the internet to accomplish their task successfully and completely.

In communication services, internet acts as a medium of human communication. People can communicate even though they are far away apart each other. In fact, people can keep in touch by using internet. The most important communication service available on internet is E-mail. The concept of E-mail is sending the electronic text messages between parties. A long time ago, people used to mailing their letter to another people by using the Post Office services but nowadays, people are more comfortable using E-mail services in order to communicate to another people. This is because the service is more efficient and faster than the older one. E-mail just takes a few seconds to deliver to the receiver.

Nowadays, people also can communicate and interact each other by using the social networking website such as Facebook, MySpace and also Friendster. People also can use Facebook to find the person who related with them by just simply type the name of the person and click search.