Advantages and disadvantages of the Net

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~*¤ô§ô¤*~Advantages and disadvantages of the Net ~*¤ô§ô¤*~

During his evolution journey from Neanderthals to Homo erectus and then to Homo sapiens, man has come long way. Because of his continuous quest for more and more amenities and facilities, the nineties have seen a major turn around with the invention of computers. 10 years ago, the term internet was practically anonymous to most of the people. And today internet has become the most ever powerful tool for man throughout the world. The internet is a collection of various services and resources.

Although, many people still think e-mail and World Wide Web as the principle constituents of internet, there is lot more in store than e-mail, chat rooms, celebrity web sites and search engines. It also became the best business tool of modern scenario. Today internet has brought a globe in a single room. Right from news across the corner of the world, wealth of knowledge to shopping, purchasing the tickets of your favorite movie-everything is at your finger tips. Internet has great potential and lot to offer… however, like every single innovation in science and technology, internet has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages

Communication:
The foremost target of internet has always been the communication. And internet has excelled beyond the expectations .Still; innovations are going on to make it faster, more reliable. By the advent of computer’s Internet, our earth has reduced and has attained the form of a global village.

Now we can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. Today for better communication, we can avail the facilities of e-mail; we can chat for hours with our loved ones. There are plenty messenger services in offering. With help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts, can explore other cultures of different ethnicity.

Information
Information is probably the biggest advantage internet is offering. The Internet is a virtual treasure trove of information. Any kind of information on any topic under the sun is available on the Internet. The search engines like Google, yahoo is at your service on the Internet. You can almost find any type of data on almost any kind of subject that you are looking for. There is a huge amount of information available on the internet for just about every subject known to man, ranging from government law and services, trade fairs and conferences, market information, new ideas and technical support, the list is end less.

Students and children are among the top users who surf the Internet for research. Today, it is almost required that students should use the Internet for research for the purpose of gathering resources. Teachers have started giving assignments that require research on the Internet. Almost every coming day, researches on medical issues become much easier to locate. Numerous web sites available on the net are offering loads of information for people to research diseases and talk to doctors online at sites such as, America’s Doctor. During 1998 over 20 million people reported going online to retrieve health information.

Entertainment
Entertainment is another popular raison d'être why many people prefer to surf the Internet. In fact, media of internet has become quite successful in trapping multifaceted entertainment factor. Downloading games, visiting chat rooms or just surfing the Web are some of the uses people have discovered. There are numerous games that may be downloaded from the Internet for free. The industry of online gaming has tasted dramatic and phenomenal attention by game lovers. Chat rooms are popular because users can meet new and interesting people. In fact, the Internet has been successfully used by people to find life long partners. When people surf the Web, there are numerous things that can be found. Music, hobbies, news and more can be found and shared on the Internet.

Services
Many services are now provided on the internet such as online banking, job seeking, purchasing tickets for your favorite movies, guidance services on array of topics engulfing the every aspect of life, and hotel reservations. Often these services are not available off-line and can cost you more.

E-Commerce
Ecommerce is the concept used for any type of commercial maneuvering, or business deals that involves the transfer of information across the globe via Internet. It has become a phenomenon associated with any kind of shopping, almost anything. You name it and Ecommerce with its giant tentacles engulfing every single product and service will make you available at your door steps. It has got a real amazing and wide range of products from household needs, technology to entertainment.

Disadvantages

Theft of Personal information
If you use the Internet, you may be facing grave danger as your personal information such as name, address, credit card number etc. can be accessed by other culprits to make your problems worse.

Spamming:
Spamming refers to sending unwanted e-mails in bulk, which provide no purpose and needlessly obstruct the entire system. Such illegal activities can be very frustrating for you, and so instead of just ignoring it, you should make an effort to try and stop these activities so that using the Internet can become that much safer.

Virus threat
Virus is nothing but a program which disrupts the normal functioning of your computer systems. Computers attached to internet are more prone to virus attacks and they can end up into crashing your whole hard disk, causing you considerable headache.

[Cheddad]

Totally true! As any other technology, the net is two edges sword in the sense of its positive and negative aspects when misused. Some disadvantages were missing however. I have two more which you can include:

Theft of Personal information and theft of personality itself (think of disguised personalities)


Addiction is the scary nightmare. It holds true always, a balance is an essential requirement in life.

[أم بدر الدين]

Thank you for the addition and i am so glad to see you among us..Welcome

[hairless17]

A very interesting topic , sister
And the comment of Cheddad about disguised personalities is right
Because I know people who tell lies about their personalities

[أم بدر الدين]

Thank you too much for your comment,it adds a touch to the topic

[hairless17]

You are always making nice topics

[أم بدر الدين]

Thank you too much brother

[hairless17]

you re welcome

[أم بدر الدين]

Thank you too much

[hairless17]

let's talk about the history of the net

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The history of the net

Part one

The idea of establishing an information network by the U.S. Department of Defense started in 1969. Ways to finance a project for the Department arrived with operators armed forces, and a large number of universities working on research funded by the armed forces, called the network name (pieces) ARPA translated from English abbreviation The Advanced Research Project Administration The objective of this project to develop networking technology Computer withstand a military attack, the network was designed "to pieces" by the way feature called Dynamic reorientation Dynamic rerouting and adopt this method of operation of the network constantly break even in the case of one of the links or failure of the Labour movement to convert the network and other links.

Subsequently not only used the network "Arpani" to the armed forces, but has been used by American universities great intensity, to the extent that they started to suffer from overcrowding overloading, and became necessary to establish a new network, for this appeared in a new network in 1983 named "Ml Net" MILNET to serve only military sites, the network has become "Arpani" is a non-military contacts, while remaining connected with the "no Net" through a programme called Protocol "Internet"
Internet Protocol (IP
Which later became the fundamental criterion in the networks.

After the emergence of the operating system "UNIX" Unix software, which included a crisis of communication with the network and the proliferation of devices used in network beneficiaries are once again suffering from excessive pregnancies, leading to the transfer network "Arpani" in 1984 at the National Science Foundation of America



To be continued

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Part two



The
National Science Foundation (NSF) Which, in turn, and specifically in 1986 in the work of another network faster nominated NSFNET, the network has worked well until in 1990 that was separate network "Arpani" from service after 20 year due to the large number of defects, with the survival of the NSFNET central part of the "Internet" . In short we can say that the most important points of the history of the emergence of "Internet" are:

The most important stages in the history of the emergence of "Internet".


1969 developed the first four points of contact network "Arpani" in American universities selected sites carefully.

1972 Overview of the first network "Arpani" at the Washington, DC, entitled World wants to call, and Mr. Ray Tomlns invent e-mail and sends first message on the "ARPANET."


1973 England and Norway in addition to the network.

1974 announcement of the details of a protocol to control transport, one of the techniques that will determine the "Internet".

became a computer companies devise their own sites on the Web. 1977

1983became the protocol TCP / IP standard network "Arpani."


To be continued

[hairless17]

Very interesting
thanks Malika
There are things that I have known here for the first time

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You are welcome

[smart]

Great topic dear
Each technology has dangerous effects for the poeple that use it