Internet: Our New World 
Running Head: Internet
Internet: Our New World
Abstract During the last years the use of the Internet has been very controversial theme, bringing different points of view. Some agree that its use is more advantageous than disadvantageous while others think differently. This paper shows the birth of the Internet, its founders, its pioneers, some advantages and disadvantages, and its future. This research also makes some suggestions for a better protection and functioning of the Internet.
Internet Our New World
“The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers)” (Internet, 2010). Today, Internet Service Providers companies like AOL, Insight, Comcast, AT&T, among others have created the infrastructure to facilitate the Internet access to everyone in the U.S. Physically the Internet connection is the connection from one or more computers to several special computers called servers. These servers allow people to display web pages from a browser and access other services that offer these special computers. Technically, the Internet is composed by a set of protocols called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol). The Internet applications which affect our daily life in important ways since its creation include several stages like its history, its advantages, its disadvantages, and its future Everybody in these days talks, debates, argues, and uses the Internet, but does anybody know when all of this abut Internet began? Everything began when The Soviet Union launched its first artificial satellite, Sputnik in 1957, proving before the eyes of the world they were leading the technology in the world. As a consequence of this event, the- United States president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, exhorted to the best of the
Internet: Our New World
Abstract During the last years the use of the Internet has been very controversial theme, bringing different points of view. Some agree that its use is more advantageous than disadvantageous while others think differently. This paper shows the birth of the Internet, its founders, its pioneers, some advantages and disadvantages, and its future. This research also makes some suggestions for a better protection and functioning of the Internet.
Internet Our New World
“The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers)” (Internet, 2010). Today, Internet Service Providers companies like AOL, Insight, Comcast, AT&T, among others have created the infrastructure to facilitate the Internet access to everyone in the U.S. Physically the Internet connection is the connection from one or more computers to several special computers called servers. These servers allow people to display web pages from a browser and access other services that offer these special computers. Technically, the Internet is composed by a set of protocols called TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol). The Internet applications which affect our daily life in important ways since its creation include several stages like its history, its advantages, its disadvantages, and its future Everybody in these days talks, debates, argues, and uses the Internet, but does anybody know when all of this abut Internet began? Everything began when The Soviet Union launched its first artificial satellite, Sputnik in 1957, proving before the eyes of the world they were leading the technology in the world. As a consequence of this event, the- United States president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, exhorted to the best of the
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