INTERNET

The Internet is a fast-growing communication technology offering a multifaceted set of tools, providing new ways for people to interact and connect with one another -- it is, in fact, the largest computer network in the world, globally recognised as connecting millions of people through interconnected computers, and it finds extensive application in essentially every walk of life; storing all of the information available on the Internet would need over one billion DVDs, or about 200 million Blu-ray discs, to give a sense of its sheer scale. Its major applications fall broadly into three groups. The search engine is a web-based service tool used to search for and locate information across the World Wide Web. Communication covers the many ways the Internet helps millions of people connect with one another through social networking -- email, instant-messaging services, and other social-networking to …