Question

1278 Words Essay on Internet Its Virtues and Vices

Answer 1

The last two decades of the 20th century witnessed the march of civilisation into an era of Information Technology. Computers and communications are the main constituents of Information Technology.

The blending of communication and computer has led to the emergence of computer networks, which, as a result, has revolutioned the whole society. It has turned the modern society into an information society. It indeed, has created a vast ocean of information with unfathomable depth.

The Internet, a vast network of networks, is the means by which computer share and exchange information and resources across either short distance or globally. It is of immensurable advantages in sharing of data, transfer of files, data security, less memory usage, cost sharing or cost-effective. It ensures accessibility to every kind of knowledge and information with the push of a button. It has, in a way, resulted in a craze to access everything with the help of Internet. Now E-commerce, E-banking, E-governance, E-farming, E-waste etc. are very familiar words.

The Internet leaps borders with-a click of mouse and the material held in a computer in America gives way to material compiled in Australia. In the network society the line demarcating public from private communication simply fades awa^v Furthermore, the Internet enables everyone in an organisation or in any part of the world to communicate with and share resources with others, giving them access to data held anywhere, even in PCs, by remote office sites or external suppliers and giving users the ability to share printers, fax, CD- ROM and modern technology, etc.

The Internet is equally valuable for organisations of all sizes it provides accessibility to all kinds of information and transferability to different places,’ with new facilities, and value addition to existing services. It has brought about a sea change in individual life as well as in trade, commerce and business.

The Internet provides information on topics ranging from arts, business, cooking, science, health, to history, travel, and space, etc. If you want to find out firms doing business in electronic equipments or metal wares, just go to any search engine and search using the key words. There you will get a list of all the firms dealing in the business across the globe of those who have registered on the Net.