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Basic Internet Usage
The Internet has become a very important part of our daily lives and has its applications in wide areas.
Some of the areas in which Internet is used are −
- Communications
- Education and research
- Instant messaging
- Online business and shopping
- Online financial services
- File and data sharing
- Developing collaborative software
- Design and development of applications and computing environments
- Content management
- Entertainment
- Social networking
- Storage of data
- Online publishing and digital newspapers
- Governance and politics
- Discussion forums
- Charity
- Audio and video conferencing
- Telephony (VoIP)
The Internet offers a number of services, as enlisted below −
- Communication services - e.g. electronic mail, telnet, telephony (VoIP), newsgroups, and instant messaging
- Information retrieval services – e.g. FTP, and Gopher
- World Wide Web (www) services
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