Internet Effect On Society
Akram Choukri
Ms. Rand
ENG111
12-09-14
Effect of the Internet on society
The Internet is one of the greatest recent advancement in the world and has become a useful instrument that has promoted the process of making the world a more resourceful place. It is a universal fact that the use of the Internet has a huge positive impact on student’s academic life. Some other benefits include the ability to communicate at a much faster and more efficient speed, and having access to basically anything you want or need to know. The Internet has been viewed from the start as a huge technological advancement and has been essential in the growth of the world, but also carries along some negatives with it. A few of these negatives include how explicit content is so accessible including pornography and the black market. Another con is how bad social media has affected society. The Internet is the critical technology of the “Information Age”, and with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-first century, we can say that humankind is now almost entirely connected.
The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network, ("Who Invented the Internet?"). On January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more identifiable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. It’s often confused with the Internet itself, the web is actually just the most common means of accessing data online in the form of websites and hyperlinks. The web helped popularize the Internet among the public, and served as a crucial step in developing the basis of information that most of us now access on a daily
Ms. Rand
ENG111
12-09-14
Effect of the Internet on society
The Internet is one of the greatest recent advancement in the world and has become a useful instrument that has promoted the process of making the world a more resourceful place. It is a universal fact that the use of the Internet has a huge positive impact on student’s academic life. Some other benefits include the ability to communicate at a much faster and more efficient speed, and having access to basically anything you want or need to know. The Internet has been viewed from the start as a huge technological advancement and has been essential in the growth of the world, but also carries along some negatives with it. A few of these negatives include how explicit content is so accessible including pornography and the black market. Another con is how bad social media has affected society. The Internet is the critical technology of the “Information Age”, and with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-first century, we can say that humankind is now almost entirely connected.
The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network, ("Who Invented the Internet?"). On January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more identifiable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. It’s often confused with the Internet itself, the web is actually just the most common means of accessing data online in the form of websites and hyperlinks. The web helped popularize the Internet among the public, and served as a crucial step in developing the basis of information that most of us now access on a daily
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