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

Paul Richard

Published on 13-Jul-2018 13:59:08

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