Effects of the Internet on Information Systems in Organisations

QN1. EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF INTERNET TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND GIVE RELEVANT EXAMPLES HOW OPERATIONS ARE CHANGED DUE TO THAT CAUSE.
Introduction.
The Internet represents one of the most successful examples of the benefits of sustained investment and commitment to research and development of information infrastructure. It is one of the most outstanding innovations in the field of communication in the history of mankind. Beginning with the early research in packet switching, the government, industry and academia have been partners in evolving and deploying this exciting new technology.
By 1985, Internet was already well established as a technology supporting a broad community of researchers and developers, and was beginning to be used by other communities for daily computer communications. Electronic mail was being used broadly across several communities, often with different systems, but interconnection between different mail systems was demonstrating the utility of broad based electronic communications between people.
The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard to geographic location.
Brief history of the internet
The vast, global internet of today had rather humble origins when it initiated. In 1969, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) developed an experimental network called ARPAnet to link together four supercomputing centres for military research. This network had the many and difficult design requirements that it had to be fast, reliable, and capable of withstanding a nuclear bomb destroying any one computer center on the network. From those original

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