The Internet is a world wide network of interconnected educational, governmental, and business computers. Anyone with a personal computer and a modem can communicate across the Internet. Your computer does this by sending data, via an electronic Internet Protocol (IP) packet, to a particular destination on the Internet. Communications software "reads" the addresses and forward the packets. Since the mid-1980s, the Internet has grown from a thousand or so networks to tens of thousands, and is available to millions of people around the globe
Internet has become the most common media of interacting with the rest of the world. Also known as the World Wide Web, it is a network of computers connected together from all over the world, allowing users to share and transmit information. The Internet has positively changed the face of modern day communication and commerce. It has evolved to become one of the most important inventions in mankind's history. The Internet is all about simple and speedy communication. It connects people from all over the world. According to Global Internet Trends Report (2002), on Internet access and penetration, almost 10% of the world's population had access to the Internet at the end of May 2002. This represented a global Internet audience of 580.78 million people, up from 407.1 million in December 2000.
Nowadays people of the world use the internet broadly. Invention of the internet has had many different effects in many various aspects of the human life. Although I dont deny some negative effects of the invention of the internet but I violently disagree with this opinion that internet has had only negative effects on civilization. Internet is like a knife. You can kill a man with a knife or use it for cutting fruits and eating them. It is only an instrument and can be used for good or bad purposes. Internet is an instrument too. It can be very useful and would have good results. I now point out some good