INTERNET THAT TRANSFORMED OUR LIVES FOREVER

                       

                                             

 

 

INTERNET THAT TRANSFORMED OUR LIVES FOREVER  

                                                                                                                                                        Internet found a place in our daily routine.  India to have 900 million Internet users by 2025.  The staple diet of our lives is Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter,  Instagram, Telegram, etc.

It has become an addiction.  Many of us could no longer imagine a life without the internet.  

 

The Internet nowadays is considered the fastest medium for sending and receiving information.

                                           

Its usage is widespread in the United States, Europe, Russia and Asia.

In the United States, 87% of adults and 97% of teenagers use the internet at least once a day.

The Internet is the foremost important tool and the prominent resource that is being used by almost every person across the globe. It connects millions of computers, webpages, websites, and servers. Using the internet we can send emails, photos, videos, and messages to our loved ones.

                                   

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol. TCP/IP is a set of standardized rules that allow computers to communicate on a network such as the Internet.  

 

It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.

 

An IP address is a 32-bit number.  It uniquely identifies a host (computer or other device, such as a printer or router) on a TCP/IP network.  IP addresses are normally expressed in dotted-decimal format, with four numbers separated by periods such as 192.168.123.132.

 

IP addresses are the numbers that enable our computers, servers, telephones, cameras, printers and sensors to communicate with each other. Without IP addresses, we would have to copy data from device to device manually, using CDs, DVDs, hard disks, or flash storage, such as a USB drive. 

The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of personal interaction through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking services. Online shopping has grown exponentially for major retailers, small businesses, and entrepreneurs, as it enables firms to extend their "brick and mortar" presence to serve a larger market or even sell goods and services entirely online. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries.

 

                            

 

Most traditional communication media, including telephone, radio, television, paper mail, and newspapers, are reshaped, redefined, or even bypassed by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as email, Internet telephone, Internet television, online music, digital newspapers, and video streaming websites. Newspaper, book, and other print publishing have adapted to website technology or have been reshaped into blogging, web feeds, and online news aggregators.

 

WWW stands for World Wide Web and HTTP means Hypertext Transfer Protocol.  

 

The World Wide Web is a global collection of documents, images, multimedia, applications, and other resources, logically interrelated by hyperlinks and referenced with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs), which provide a global system of named references. URIs symbolically identify services, web servers, databases, and the documents and resources that they can provide. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the main access protocol of the World Wide Web. Web services also use HTTP for communication between software systems for information transfer, sharing, and exchanging business data and logistics, and is one of many languages or protocols that can be used for communication on the Internet.

 

 

World Wide Web browser software, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer/Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple's Safari, and Google Chrome, lets users navigate from one web page to another via the hyperlinks embedded in the documents. These documents may also contain any combination of computer data, including graphics, sounds, text, video, multimedia, and interactive content that runs while the user is interacting with the page. Client-side software can include animations, games, office applications, and scientific demonstrations. Through keyword-driven Internet research using search engines like Yahoo!, Bing, and Google, users worldwide have easy, instant access to a vast and diverse amount of online information. Compared to printed media, books, encyclopedias and traditional libraries, the World Wide Web has enabled the decentralization of information on a large scale.

 

 

                                 

 

The most popular apps on the internet are WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Telegram, etc.

 

 

WhatsApp :

WhatsApp is a freeware, cross-platform, centralized instant messaging and voice-over-IP service owned by United States tech conglomerate Meta Platforms. It allows users to send text, voice messages, and video messages, make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content. 

Meta owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp, among other products and services.

 

Although WhatsApp is available for iPhone, Android, macOS, and Windows, you'll need to start with your smartphone.   

 

WhatsApp works across mobile and desktop even on slow connections, with no subscription fees*. Your personal messages and calls to friends and family are end-to-end encrypted.

 

Facebook :

Meta Platforms, Inc., doing business as Meta, and formerly named Facebook, Inc., and TheFacebook, Inc., is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California.

Keeping up with friends is faster and easier than ever. Share updates and photos, engage with friends and Pages, and stay connected to communities important to you.   Connect with friends and family and meet new people on your social media network.



Mark Zuckerberg (mostly) owns Facebook. He founded Facebook and is now the CEO of its parent company, Meta. Besides Facebook, Meta's products include WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads, and the Horizon metaverse.

 

 

Instagram :

Instagram, LLC is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by the American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters, be organized by hashtags, and be associated with a location — via geographical tagging.

 

 

Telegram :

                                               

Telegram Messenger is a globally accessible premium, cloud-based, and centralized instant messaging service. The application also provides optional end-to-end encrypted chats and video calling, VoIP, file sharing, and several other features.

 

You can watch a  full-length feature film using this app.

 

 

 

Snapchat :

 

 

Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually only available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients.

 

Chat, send Snaps, explore Stories & Lenses on desktop, or download the app for mobile!

 

 

Twitter :

 
Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California. The company operated the social networking service Twitter and previously the Vine short video app and Periscope live streaming service.

                       

Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022; Musk acted as CEO of Twitter until he stepped down in June 2023 and was replaced by Linda Yaccarino. During that time frame, the company introduced a series of reforms and management changes.

Following Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, the social media platform has undergone a major transformation, replacing its iconic blue bird logo with a striking white 'X' as its new official logo. The announcement was made by Mr. Musk himself, who tweeted, "X dot com now points to Twitter dot com,

 

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People post Tweets, which may contain photos, videos, links, and text. These messages are posted to your profile, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.

 

 

LinkedIn :

                                  

 

LinkedIn is a business and employment-focused social media platform that works through websites and mobile apps. It was launched on May 5, 2003. It is now owned by Microsoft.

 

You can post your credentials on LinkedIn and find opportunities for greener pastures.

 

 

There are many more apps on the internet such as Sharechat, Mojo, and TikTok to name a few. 

 

 

The Hypertext Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the meaning and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

 

 

Security

Internet resources, hardware, and software components are the target of criminal or malicious attempts to gain unauthorized control to cause interruptions, commit fraud, engage in blackmail, or access private information.

 

Malware :

Malware is malicious software used and distributed via the Internet. It includes computer viruses that are copied with the help of humans, computer worms that copy themselves automatically, software for denial of service attacks, ransomware, botnets, and spyware that reports on the activity and typing of users. Usually, these activities constitute cybercrime. Defense theorists have also speculated about the possibilities of hackers using cyber warfare using similar methods on a large scale.

 

 

 Adults-only sites :

There are many sites on the Internet that requires age verification.  The children are not supposed to use such sites.

30% of the videos downloaded on the internet pertain to pornography.

 

Today, roughly 2.5 million people visit the world's most popular porn sites in every 60 seconds.  In a more detailed look, more than 28000 users collectively tune in on porn sites every second.

The biggest patrons come from the United States, where an estimated 40 million users consume porn regularly.  97% of teenagers watch porn in the United States.

 

As smartphone penetration increases by leaps and bounds in India, porn consumption has reached its zenith too. A new report has revealed that in India, 89 percent of people watched porn via mobile devices in 2019 — up three percent from 2017.

 

A child lock is required to save children from accessing adult-only sites. 

 

 

 

Who invented the Internet :

 

Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn can be found on every shortlist of people credited as inventors of the internet. This is because they came up with the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), aka the standard for how information is shared between different networks.

In the early days of Wi-Fi, include the tagline “The Standard for Wireless Fidelity”.

 

 

Wireless Routers

A wireless router is sometimes referred to as a wireless local area network (WLAN) device. A wireless network is also called a Wi-Fi network.

 

A wireless router, also called a Wi-Fi router, combines the networking functions of a wireless access point and a router. A router connects local networks to other local networks or to the Internet. 

 

The dissemination of digitized text, pictures, and audio and video recordings over the Internet, primarily available today through the World Wide Web, has resulted in an information explosion. Clearly, powerful tools are needed to manage network-based information. Information available on the Internet today may not be available tomorrow without careful attention being paid to preservation and archiving techniques. The key to making information persistently available is infrastructure and the management of that infrastructure. Repositories of information, stored as digital objects, will soon populate the Internet. At first, these repositories may be dominated by digital objects specifically created and formatted for the World Wide Web, but in time they will contain objects of all kinds in formats that will be dynamically resolvable by users’ computers in real-time. Movement of digital objects from one repository to another will still leave them available to users who are authorized to access them, while replicated instances of objects in multiple repositories will provide alternatives to users who are better able to interact with certain parts of the Internet than with others. 

 

Information will have its own identity and, indeed, become a “first-class citizen” on the Internet.