Question

Speech on how internet is influencing our life

Answer 1

The internet is like a drug to people. Mostly teenagers. It gives them influences in which they want it even more and more until it becomes. a problem. These information superhighways carry a variety of information like numbers, text, graphics, voice and full-motion video. The present day, global information superhighway is popularly known as Internet or simply the ‘Net’.

The Internet means different things to different people. It is so be­cause it has a variety of applications and it offers an ocean of oppor­tunities for business. In short, Internet is an abbreviation for the Internetwork system, that is, a network of computer networks.

It was during 1969, when the US Department of Defence, through their Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA), developed a net­work of computers using telephone lines and named it ARPANet, the seed of Internet. The ARPANet allowed access to various acad­emicians and military personnel through their sites located at dif­ferent places.

With gradual advancement in networking technology and availability of lot of information on the ARPANet, more and more computers started getting connected to it. A critical minimum mass for the Internet was ready. In 1990, ARPANet came to an end and the Internet became the most potent and uncontrollable com­munication force to reckon with.The Internet is a unique network. It is not administered by any international body. Instead, there is a voluntary society of Internet users called Internet Society that aims at promoting global ex­change of information through the Internet. Its Internet Architect Board (IAB) is responsible for the technical management and di­recting the Internet. The entire support to Internet comes from the Internet enthusiasts who volunteer to contribute their mite in its growth.

The Internet architecture has three basic layers, namely, Internet Backbone, Internet Service Providers and the end user. The Internet backbones are high speed networks connected to each other and Internet service providers are connected to any one of the backbones with high speed data transfer lines. The end user, generally, dials up the Internet service provider to gain access to the Internet.