what is the internet

Do you want to communicate with your friends across town or perhaps in another city or country? You would like to share your photos, videos or documents with your friends and colleagues. Perhaps you are searching for research papers or books. Perhaps you want to download latest songs or movies. Where do you start? For this, and many more information and entertainment activities, try the Internet and the web.

The Internet is a gigantic web of computers that connects people across the globe. Providing an easy access to information and entertainment.

The internet has become an everyday tool for everyone to use. An internet user must be competent enough to know where these resources are available. They must know how to access these resources, to communicate with others, to find information, to locate best deals on e-commerce websites and above all to be knowledgeable about security issues that is unfortunately part of the internet.

The Internet was "launched in 1969" when the United States funded a project called Advanced Research Project Agency Network (ARPANET). The World Wide Web (WWW) was introduced by Sir Tim Berners Lee in 1992 at CERN (Center for European Nuclear Research), Switzerland.

Many people take the internet and the Web as the same thing, but they are not the same. The Internet is the actual physical network which comprises of wires, cables & Satellites. They connect computers across the globe. The Web on the other hand is a multimedia interface to resources and information that we find over the internet.

Every day over a billion of people connects to the internet. What are they doing? The following are the most common uses of the internet.

Communicating

Communicating is by far the most common & popular activity over the internet. One can send emails through email service providers like Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook. Or share & view photos, videos with your friends and family on social media websites like Facebook, Google +, Twitter.