Advantages: The internet gives students access to thousands of useful sites and permits online discussion.

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Internet

Routing paths through a portion of the Internet as visualized by the Opte Project

General

Access Censorship Democracy

Digital divide Digital rights

Freedom History Network neutrality

Phenomenon Pioneers Privacy

Sociology Usage

Internet governance

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

Internet Society (ISOC)

Protocols and infrastructure

Domain Name System (DNS)

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

IP address Internet exchange point

Internet Protocol (IP)

Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP)

Internet service provider (ISP)

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)

Services

Blogs Microblogs E-mail

Fax File sharing File transfer

Instant messaging Gaming

Podcast TV Search

Shopping Voice over IP (VoIP)

World Wide Web

Guides

Outline Internet portal

This box:

view

talk

edit

Computer network types by geographical scope

Near field (NFC) Body (BAN) Personal (PAN) Near-me (NAN) Local (LAN)

Home (HAN) Storage (SAN)

Campus (CAN) Backbone Metropolitan (MAN) Wide (WAN) Internet Interplanetary Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (often called TCP/IP, although not all applications use TCP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructureto support email. Most traditional communications media including telephone, music, film, and television are reshaped or redefined by the Internet, giving birth to new services such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). Newspaper, book and other print publishing are adapting to Web sitetechnology, or are reshaped into blogging and web feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated new forms of human interactions through instant messaging, Internet forums, and social networking. Online shopping has boomed both for major retail outlets and small artisans and traders. Business-to-business and financial services on the Internet affect supply chains across entire industries. The origins of the Internet reach back to research of the 1960s, commissioned by the United States government in collaboration with private commercial interests to build robust, fault-tolerant, and distributed computer networks. The funding of a new U.S. backbone by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, as well as private funding for other commercial backbones, led to worldwide participation in the development of new networking technologies, and the merger of many networks. The commercialization of what was by the 1990s an international network resulted in its popularization and incorporation into virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2011, more than 2.2 billion people nearly a third of Earth's population use the services of the Internet.[1]

The Internet has no centralized governance in either technological implementation or policies for access and usage; each constituent network sets its own standards. Only the overreaching definitions of the two principal name spaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, are directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical underpinning and standardization of the core protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization of loosely affiliated international participants that anyone may associate with by contributing technical expertise.

Governance
Main article: Internet governance

ICANN headquarters in Marina Del Rey, California, United States

The Internet is a globally distributed network comprising many voluntarily interconnected autonomous networks. It operates without a central governing body. However, to maintain interoperability, all technical and policy aspects of the underlying core infrastructure and the principal name spaces are administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), headquartered in Marina del Rey, California. ICANN is the authority that coordinates the assignment of unique identifiers for use on the Internet, including domain names, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, application port numbers in the transport protocols, and many other parameters. Globally unified name spaces, in which names and numbers are uniquely assigned, are essential for the global reach of the Internet. ICANN is governed by an international board of directors drawn from across the Internet technical, business, academic, and other non-commercial communities. The government of the United States continues to have the primary role in approving changes to theDNS root zone that lies at the heart of the domain name [36] system. ICANN's role in coordinating the assignment of unique identifiers distinguishes it as perhaps the only central coordinating body on the global Internet. On 16 November 2005, the World Summit on the Information Society, held in Tunis, established the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to discuss Internet-related issues.

Modern uses
The Internet allows greater flexibility in working hours and location, especially with the spread of unmetered high-speed connections. The Internet can be accessed almost anywhere by numerous

means, including through mobile Internet devices. Mobile phones, datacards, handheld game consoles and cellular routers allow users to connect to the Internet wirelessly. Within the limitations imposed by small screens and other limited facilities of such pocket-sized devices, the services of the Internet, including email and the web, may be available. Service providers may restrict the services offered and mobile data charges may be significantly higher than other access methods. Educational material at all levels from pre-school to post-doctoral is available from websites. Examples range from CBeebies, through school and high-school revision guides, virtual universities, to access to top-end scholarly literature through the likes of Google Scholar. For distance education, help with homework and other assignments, self-guided learning, whiling away spare time, or just looking up more detail on an interesting fact, it has never been easier for people to access educational information at any level from anywhere. The Internet in general and the World Wide Webin particular are important enablers of both formal and informal education. The low cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills has made collaborative work dramatically easier, with the help of collaborative software. Not only can a group cheaply communicate and share ideas but the wide reach of the Internet allows such groups more easily to form. An example of this is the free software movement, which has produced, among other things, Linux, Mozilla Firefox, and OpenOffice.org. Internet chat, whether in the form of an IRC chat room or channel, via an instant messaging system, or a social networking website, allows colleagues to stay in touch in a very convenient way when working at their computers during the day. Messages can be exchanged even more quickly and conveniently than via email. These systems may allow files to be exchanged, drawings and images to be shared, or voice and video contact between team members. Content management systems allow collaborating teams to work on shared sets of documents simultaneously without accidentally destroying each other's work. Business and project teams can share calendars as well as documents and other information. Such collaboration occurs in a wide variety of areas including scientific research, software development, conference planning, political activism and creative writing. Social and political collaboration is also becoming more widespread as both Internet access and computer literacy spread. The Internet allows computer users to remotely access other computers and information stores easily, wherever they may be. They may do this with or without computer security, i.e. authentication and encryption technologies, depending on the requirements. This is encouraging new ways of working from home, collaboration and information sharing in many industries. An accountant sitting at home can audit the books of a company based in another country, on a server situated in a third country that is remotely maintained by IT specialists in a fourth. These accounts could have been created by homeworking bookkeepers, in other remote locations, based on information emailed to them from offices all over the world. Some of these things were possible before the widespread use of the Internet, but the cost of private leased lines would have made many of them infeasible in practice. An office worker away from their desk, perhaps on the other side of the world on a business trip or a holiday, can access their emails, access their data using cloud computing, or open a remote desktop session into their office PC using a secureVirtual Private Network (VPN) connection on the Internet. This can give the worker complete access to all of their normal files and data, including email and other applications, while away from the office. This concept has been referred to among system administrators as the Virtual Private [37] Nightmare, because it extends the secure perimeter of a corporate network into remote locations and its employees' homes.

Services
World Wide Web
Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web, or just the Web, interchangeably, but the two terms are not synonymous. The World Wide Web is a global set of documents, imagesand other resources, logically interrelated by hyperlinks and referenced with Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). URIs symbolically identify services, servers, and other databases, and the documents and resources that they can provide. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the main access protocol of the World Wide Web, but it is only one of the hundreds of communication protocols used on the Internet. Web services also use HTTP to allow software systems to communicate in order to share and exchange business logic and data. World Wide Web browser software, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Apple's Safari, and Google Chrome, lets users navigate from one web page to another via 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 researchusing search engines like Yahoo! 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 Web has also enabled individuals and organizations to publish ideas and information to a potentially large audience online at greatly reduced expense and time delay. Publishing a web page, a blog, or building a website involves little initial cost and many cost-free services are available. Publishing and maintaining large, professional web sites with attractive, diverse and up-to-date information is still a difficult and expensive proposition, however. Many individuals and some companies and groups use web logs or blogs, which are largely used as easily updatable online diaries. Some commercial organizations encourage staff to communicate advice in their areas of specialization in the hope that visitors will be impressed by the expert knowledge and free information, and be attracted to the corporation as a result. One example of this practice is Microsoft, whose product developers publish their personal blogs in order to pique the public's interest in their work. Collections of personal web pages published by large service providers remain popular, and have become increasingly sophisticated. Whereas operations such as Angelfire andGeoCities have existed since the early days of the Web, newer offerings from, for example, Facebook and Twitter currently have large followings. These operations often brand themselves associal network services rather than simply as web page hosts. Advertising on popular web pages can be lucrative, and e-commerce or the sale of products and services directly via the Web continues to grow. When the Web began in the 1990s, a typical web page was stored in completed form on a web server, formatted in HTML, ready to be sent to a user's browser in response to a request. Over time, the process of creating and serving web pages has become more automated and more dynamic. Websites are often created using content management or wiki software with, initially, very little content. Contributors to these systems, who may be paid staff, members of a club or other organization or members of the public, fill underlying databases with content using editing pages designed for that purpose, while casual visitors view and read this content in its final HTML form. There may or may not be editorial, approval and

security systems built into the process of taking newly entered content and making it available to the target visitors.

Communication
Email is an important communications service available on the Internet. The concept of sending electronic text messages between parties in a way analogous to mailing letters or memos predates the creation of the Internet. Pictures, documents and other files are sent as email attachments. Emails can be cc-ed to multiple email addresses. Internet telephony is another common communications service made possible by the creation of the Internet. VoIP stands for Voice-over-Internet Protocol, referring to the protocol that underlies all Internet communication. The idea began in the early 1990s with walkie-talkie-like voice applications for personal computers. In recent years many VoIP systems have become as easy to use and as convenient as a normal telephone. The benefit is that, as the Internet carries the voice traffic, VoIP can be free or cost much less than a traditional telephone call, especially over long distances and especially for those with always-on Internet connections such as cable or ADSL. VoIP is maturing into a competitive alternative to traditional telephone service. Interoperability between different providers has improved and the ability to call or receive a call from a traditional telephone is available. Simple, inexpensive VoIP network adapters are available that eliminate the need for a personal computer. Voice quality can still vary from call to call, but is often equal to and can even exceed that of traditional calls. Remaining problems for VoIP include emergency telephone number dialing and reliability. Currently, a few VoIP providers provide an emergency service, but it is not universally available. Traditional phones are line-powered and operate during a power failure; VoIP does not do so without a backup power source for the phone equipment and the Internet access devices. VoIP has also become increasingly popular for gaming applications, as a form of communication between players. Popular VoIP clients for gaming include Ventrilo and Teamspeak. Wii, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 also offer VoIP chat features.

Data transfer
File sharing is an example of transferring large amounts of data across the Internet. A computer file can be emailed to customers, colleagues and friends as an attachment. It can be uploaded to a website or FTP server for easy download by others. It can be put into a "shared location" or onto a file server for instant use by colleagues. The load of bulk downloads to many users can be eased by the use of "mirror" servers or peer-to-peer networks. In any of these cases, access to the file may be controlled by user authentication, the transit of the file over the Internet may be obscured by encryption, and money may change hands for access to the file. The price can be paid by the remote charging of funds from, for example, a credit card whose details are also passed usually fully encrypted across the Internet. The origin and authenticity of the file received may be checked by digital signatures or by MD5 or other message digests. These simple features of the Internet, over a worldwide basis, are changing the production, sale, and distribution of anything that can be reduced to a computer file for transmission. This includes all manner of print publications, software products, news, music, film, video, photography, graphics and the other arts. This in turn has caused seismic shifts in each of the existing industries that previously controlled the production and distribution of these products. Streaming media is the real-time delivery of digital media for the immediate consumption or enjoyment by end users. Many radio and television broadcasters provide Internet feeds of their live audio and video

productions. They may also allow time-shift viewing or listening such as Preview, Classic Clips and Listen Again features. These providers have been joined by a range of pure Internet "broadcasters" who never had on-air licenses. This means that an Internet-connected device, such as a computer or something more specific, can be used to access on-line media in much the same way as was previously possible only with a television or radio receiver. The range of available types of content is much wider, from specialized technical webcasts to on-demand popular multimedia services. Podcasting is a variation on this theme, where usually audio material is downloaded and played back on a computer or shifted to a portable media player to be listened to on the move. These techniques using simple equipment allow anybody, with little censorship or licensing control, to broadcast audio-visual material worldwide. Digital media streaming increases the demand for network bandwidth. For example, standard image quality needs 1 Mbit/s link speed for SD 480p, HD 720p quality requires 2.5 Mbit/s, and the top-of-the-line [38] HDX quality needs 4.5 Mbit/s for 1080p. Webcams are a low-cost extension of this phenomenon. While some webcams can give full-frame-rate video, the picture either is usually small or updates slowly. Internet users can watch animals around an African waterhole, ships in the Panama Canal, traffic at a local roundabout or monitor their own premises, live and in real time. Video chat rooms and video conferencing are also popular with many uses being found for personal webcams, with and without two-way sound. YouTube was founded on 15 February 2005 and is now the leading website for free streaming video with a vast number of users. It uses a flashbased web player to stream and show video files. Registered users may upload an unlimited amount of video and build their own personal profile. YouTube claims that its users watch hundreds of millions, and [39] upload hundreds of thousands of videos daily.

Access
Main article: Internet access Common methods of Internet access in homes include dial-up, landline broadband (over coaxial cable, fiber optic or copper wires), Wi-Fi, satellite and 3G/4G technology cell phones. Public places to use the Internet include libraries and Internet cafes, where computers with Internet connections are available. There are also Internet access points in many public places such as airport halls and coffee shops, in some cases just for brief use while standing. Various terms are used, such as "public Internet kiosk", "public access terminal", and "Web payphone". Many hotels now also have public terminals, though these are usually fee-based. These terminals are widely accessed for various usage like ticket booking, bank deposit, online payment etc. Wi-Fi provides wireless access to computer networks, and therefore can do so to the Internet itself. Hotspots providing such access include Wi-Fi cafes, where would-be users need to bring their own wireless-enabled devices such as a laptop or PDA. These services may be free to all, free to customers only, or fee-based. A hotspot need not be limited to a confined location. A whole campus or park, or even an entire city can be enabled. Grassroots efforts have led to wireless community networks. Commercial Wi-Fi services covering large city areas are in place in London, Vienna, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and Pittsburgh. [40] The Internet can then be accessed from such places as a park bench. Apart from Wi-Fi, there have been experiments with proprietary mobile wireless networks like Ricochet, various high-speed data services over cellular phone networks, and fixed wireless services. High-end mobile phones such as smartphones in general come with Internet access through the phone network. Web browsers such as Opera are available on these advanced handsets, which can also run a wide variety of other Internet

software. More mobile phones have Internet access than PCs, though this is not as widely used. Internet access provider and protocol matrix differentiates the methods used to get online.

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An Internet blackout or outage can be caused by local signaling interruptions. Disruptions of submarine communications cables may cause blackouts or slowdowns to large areas, such as in the2008 submarine cable disruption. Less-developed countries are more vulnerable due to a small number of high-capacity links. Land cables are also vulnerable, as in 2011 when a woman digging for scrap metal severed most [42] connectivity for the nation of Armenia. Internet blackouts affecting almost entire countries can be achieved by governments as a form of Internet censorship, as in the blockage of the Internet in Egypt, [43] whereby approximately 93% of networks were without access in 2011 in an attempt to stop mobilization [44] for anti-government protests.

Users

Internet users per 100 inhabitants

Source: ITU[45]

Internet users by language[46]

Website content languages[47]

See also: Global Internet usage, English on the Internet, and Unicode

Overall Internet usage has seen tremendous growth. From 2000 to 2009, the number of Internet users [48] globally rose from 394 million to 1.858 billion. By 2010, 22 percent of the world's population had access to computers with 1 billionGoogle searches every day, 300 million Internet users reading blogs, and 2 [49] billion videos viewed daily on YouTube. The prevalent language for communication on the Internet has been English. This may be a result of the origin of the Internet, as well as the language's role as a lingua franca. Early computer systems were limited to the characters in theAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), a subset of the Latin alphabet. After English (27%), the most requested languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (23%), Spanish (8%), Japanese (5%), Portuguese and German (4% each), Arabic, French and Russian (3% each), and [50] Korean (2%). By region, 42% of the world's Internet users are based in Asia, 24% in Europe, 14% in North America, 10% in Latin America and theCaribbean taken together, 6% in Africa, 3% in the Middle [51] East and 1% in Australia/Oceania. The Internet's technologies have developed enough in recent years, especially in the use of Unicode, that good facilities are available for development and communication in the world's widely used languages. However, some glitches such as mojibake(incorrect display of some languages' characters) still remain. In an American study in 2005, the percentage of men using the Internet was very slightly ahead of the percentage of women, although this difference reversed in those under 30. Men logged on more often, spent more time online, and were more likely to be broadband users, whereas women tended to make more use of opportunities to communicate (such as email). Men were more likely to use the Internet to pay bills, participate in auctions, and for recreation such as downloading music and videos. Men and [52] women were equally likely to use the Internet for shopping and banking. More recent studies indicate that in 2008, women significantly outnumbered men on most social networking sites, such as Facebook [53] and Myspace, although the ratios varied with age. In addition, women watched more streaming [54] content, whereas men downloaded more. In terms of blogs, men were more likely to blog in the first place; among those who blog, men were more likely to have a professional blog, whereas women were [55] more likely to have a personal blog.

Social impact
Main article: Sociology of the Internet The Internet has enabled entirely new forms of social interaction, activities, and organizing, thanks to its basic features such as widespread usability and access. In the first decade of the 21st century, the first generation is raised with widespread availability of Internet connectivity, bringing consequences and concerns in areas such as personal privacy and identity, and distribution of copyrighted materials. These "digital natives" face a variety of challenges that were not present for prior generations.

Social networking and entertainment

See also: Social networking service#Social impact Many people use the World Wide Web to access news, weather and sports reports, to plan and book vacations and to find out more about their interests. People use chat, messaging and email to make and stay in touch with friends worldwide, sometimes in the same way as some previously had pen pals. The

Internet has seen a growing number ofWeb desktops, where users can access their files and settings via the Internet. Social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace have created new ways to socialize and interact. Users of these sites are able to add a wide variety of information to pages, to pursue common interests, and to connect with others. It is also possible to find existing acquaintances, to allow communication among existing groups of people. Sites like LinkedIn foster commercial and business connections. YouTube and Flickr specialize in users' videos and photographs. The Internet has been a major outlet for leisure activity since its inception, with entertaining social experiments such asMUDs and MOOs being conducted on university servers, and humorrelated Usenet groups receiving much traffic. Today, many Internet forums have sections devoted to games and funny videos; short cartoons in the form of Flash movies are also popular. Over 6 million people use blogs or message boards as a means of communication and for the sharing of ideas. The pornography and gambling industries have taken advantage of the World Wide Web, and often provide a [56] significant source of advertising revenue for other websites. Although many governments have attempted to restrict both industries' use of the Internet, in general this has failed to stop their widespread [57] popularity. Another area of leisure activity on the Internet is multiplayer gaming. This form of recreation creates communities, where people of all ages and origins enjoy the fast-paced world of multiplayer games. These range from MMORPG tofirst-person shooters, from role-playing video games to online gambling. While online gaming has been around since the 1970s, modern modes of online gaming began with [59] subscription services such as GameSpy and MPlayer. Non-subscribers were limited to certain types of game play or certain games. Many people use the Internet to access and download music, movies and other works for their enjoyment and relaxation. Free and fee-based services exist for all of these activities, using centralized servers and distributed peer-to-peer technologies. Some of these sources exercise more care with respect to the original artists' copyrights than others. Internet usage has been correlated to users' loneliness. Lonely people tend to use the Internet as an outlet for their feelings and to share their stories with others, such as in the "I am lonely will anyone speak to me" thread. Cybersectarianism is a new organizational form which involves: "highly dispersed small groups of practitioners that may remain largely anonymous within the larger social context and operate in relative secrecy, while still linked remotely to a larger network of believers who share a set of practices and texts, and often a common devotion to a particular leader. Overseas supporters provide funding and support; domestic practitioners distribute tracts, participate in acts of resistance, and share information on the internal situation with outsiders. Collectively, members and practitioners of such sects construct viable virtual communities of faith, exchanging personal testimonies and engaging in collective study via email, [61] on-line chat rooms and web-based message boards." Cyberslacking can become a drain on corporate resources; the average UK employee spent 57 minutes a [62] day surfing the Web while at work, according to a 2003 study by Peninsula Business Services. Internet addiction disorder is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life. Psychologist Nicolas Carr believe that Internet use has other effects on individuals, for instance improving skills of scan-reading and [63] interfering with the deep thinking that leads to true creativity.
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Politics and political revolutions

The Internet has achieved new relevance as a political tool. The presidential campaign of Howard Dean in 2004 in the United States was notable for its success in soliciting donation via the Internet. Many political groups use the Internet to achieve a new method of organizing in order to carry out their mission, [64][65] having given rise to Internet activism, most notably practiced by rebels in the Arab Spring. The New York Times suggested that social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter helped people organize the political revolutions in Egypt where it helped certain classes of protesters organize protests, [66] communicate grievances, and disseminate information. The potential of the Internet as a civic tool of communicative power was thoroughly explored by Simon R. B. Berdal in his thesis of 2004: As the globally evolving Internet provides ever new access points to virtual discourse forums, it also promotes new civic relations and associations within which communicative power may flow and accumulate. Thus, traditionally ... national-embedded peripheries get entangled into greater, international peripheries, with stronger combined powers... The Internet, as a consequence, changes the topology of the "centre-periphery" model, by stimulating conventional peripheries to interlink into "super-periphery" [67] structures, which enclose and "besiege" several centres at once. Berdal, therefore, extends the Habermasian notion of the Public sphere to the Internet, and underlines the inherent global and civic nature that intervowen Internet technologies provide. To limit the growing civic potential of the Internet, Berdal also notes how "self-protective measures" are put in place by those threatened by it: If we consider Chinas attempts to filter "unsuitable material" from the Internet, most of us would agree that this resembles a self-protective measure by the system against the growing civic potentials of the Internet. Nevertheless, both types represent limitations to "peripheral capacities". Thus, the Chinese government tries to prevent communicative power to build up and unleash (as the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising suggests, the government may find it wise to install "upstream measures"). Even though limited, the Internet is proving to be an empowering tool also to the Chinese periphery: Analysts believe that Internet petitions have influenced policy implementation in favour of the publics online-articulated will [67] ...

Philanthropy
The spread of low-cost internet access in developing countries has opened up new possibilities for peerto-peer charities, which allow individuals to contribute small amounts to charitable projects for other individuals. Websites such as DonorsChoose and GlobalGiving allow small-scale donors to direct funds to individual projects of their choice. A popular twist on internet-based philanthropy is the use of peer-to-peer lending for charitable purposes. Kiva pioneered this concept in 2005, offering the first web-based service to publish individual loan profiles for funding. Kiva raises funds for local intermediary microfinance organizations which post stories and updates on behalf of the borrowers. Lenders can contribute as little as $25 to loans of their choice, and receive their money back as borrowers repay. Kiva falls short of being a pure peer-to-peer charity, in that loans are disbursed before being funded by lenders and borrowers do not communicate [68][69] with lenders themselves.

However, the recent spread of low cost Internet access in developing countries has made genuine international person-to-person philanthropy increasingly feasible. In 2009 the US-based nonprofitZidisha tapped into this trend to offer the first person-to-person microfinance platform to link lenders and borrowers across international borders without intermediaries. Members can fund loans for as little as a dollar, which the borrowers then use to develop business activities that improve their families' incomes while repaying loans to the members with interest. Borrowers access the internet via public cybercafes, donated laptops in village schools, and even smart phones, then create their own profile pages through which they share photos and information about themselves and their businesses. As they repay their loans, borrowers continue to share updates and dialogue with lenders via their profile pages. This direct web-based connection allows members themselves to take on many of the communication and recording tasks traditionally performed by local organizations, bypassing geographic barriers and [70] dramatically reducing the cost of microfinance services to the entrepreneurs.

Censorship
Main articles: Internet censorship and Internet freedom Some governments, such as those of Burma, Iran, North Korea, the People's Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates restrict what people in their countries can access on the Internet, especially political and religious content. This is accomplished through software that filters domains and [71] content so that they may not be easily accessed or obtained without elaborate circumvention. In Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden, major Internet service providers have voluntarily, possibly to avoid such an arrangement being turned into law, agreed to restrict access to sites listed by authorities. While this list of forbidden URLs is supposed to contain addresses of only known child pornography sites, [72] the content of the list is secret. Many countries, including the United States, have enacted laws against the possession or distribution of certain material, such as child pornography, via the Internet, but do not mandate filtering software. There are many free and commercially available software programs, called content-control software, with which a user can choose to block offensive websites on individual computers or networks, in order to limit a child's access to pornographic materials or depiction of violence.

Describe The Internet How It Works?

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.Because the Internet is a global network of computers each computer connected to the Internet must have a unique address. Internet addresses are in the form nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn where nnn must be a number from 0 - 255. This address is known as an IP address.

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Advantages & Disadvantages of the Internet in Education

By Alex Barski, eHow Contributor

Internet access in the classroom contains advantages and disadvantages.

Nearly every classroom in America's schools can access the Internet, a number that grew from 35 percent in 1994, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Some teachers use the Internet with every assignment while others take a different approach. As with any education technique, classroom Internet usage comes with both advantages and disadvantages.

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A major advantage of the Internet is the ability to access all types of information from library resources all over the world, including magazines, books, newspapers and journal publications, instantaneously. This information increases the learning potential by providing students with the latest information. It also expands the resources of a smaller library tremendously. Students using search engines can find information quicker and more tailored to their specific needs. As a disadvantage, educators may consider this information overload. With all of the information available to students, they may find it difficult to choose which information is most important to a topic and also when to stop looking. In addition, the validity of Internet sources varies considerably from website to website, which means students can very easily acquire inaccurate or out-dated information online.

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An online education provides students with the convenience of going to class and completing assignments on their own timetable. Students can take classes from a college or university nowhere near their home and get an education experience not available to them locally. Students who travel with a job can take a class in a house, hotel room or coffee shop. Students save on housing, gas money and travel expenses. However, an online education means face-to-face instruction does not exist, nor does the ability to get instant feedback on class assignments in many situations. They also can't hear questions from other students (or ask questions themselves), which often can give clarification to a student struggling with the concepts of the material.

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An advantage of a classroom Internet connection allows students to take a virtual field trip without ever leaving their school building. Students studying the animals of Africa, the Great Wall of China or the Egyptian pyramids, for example, never have to get on a plane. For schools struggling with budgets and for schools in rural locations, going to an online museum or virtual zoo gives them a unique opportunity they might not otherwise have without Internet access. Disadvantages of this experience mean students can't ask questions of the zookeeper or touch a snake at a zoo. They can't take pictures or create memories with their classmates. For younger children, a field trip can teach them how to behave in public and respect adults; since virtual field trips don't leave the classroom, they only learn to respect their teacher.

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The Internet allows students to meet people from all over the world at the click of a button. Suddenly doing a tenth grade literature project on Irish literature with the help of students in Ireland makes the project more interesting and thus a huge advantage. Artists studying Italian architecture can email experts in Italy about the vast amount of artwork. While these opportunities provide great details and resources, they also can damage social skills. Students who reply primarily on the Internet for information and interaction don't talk to people in person as much; rather they just email back and forth. This can make it hard to develop listening skills, especially when interviewing someone, or to acquire appropriate social skills for face-to-face interactions.
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The Advantages of Internet in Education

By Sue Turner, eHow Contributor

The Internet offers a world of information in one place. It is a helpful tool in communicating and researching all different subjects. It is also a great way for students to use computers with proper supervision. Yet using the Internet in an educational system can be controversial. Some of the disadvantages include students giving out too much information about themselves, sites too commercialized with little educational value, and access to material that parents might not want their children exposed to. However, teachers and students have seen many benefits.

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The Internet helps students develop their computer skills. It can also help students with their writing skills. In some forms, the Internet can help students with critical thinking skills. Students are faced with more information than they could ever use or need. This requires them to sort through the information and decide what is most important and relevant. With e-mail, students can have contact with other students around the world studying the same things they are.

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The Internet can be a huge source for children trying to look up information for a school project or do homework. It also eliminates barriers for handicapped students who may have trouble getting to a library. It allows all students to have access to information whether or not their family has a set of encyclopedias.

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The Internet allows students to read the latest news of a certain subject they are studying. If they are studying American politics they can do a news search and find out what is happening in the world of politics at that very moment. This can help them connect what they are learning to the real world. It can also keep them interested in a subject. Students may have longer attention spans with technology than with other forms of traditional learning.

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Students will have to use the computer for research in college, in their jobs and their everyday lives. The Internet is a way of life for almost everyone now. Using it in a classroom is one of the best and safest ways to help them learn about this tool.

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The Internet is an added bonus for teachers looking for more information on subjects. It allows them to efficiently communicate with parents and other teachers through email. Teachers can have their own class pages that parents can check at their convenience to see what is going on in the classroom.
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sites such as America's Doctor also allow you to talk to the doctors online. Entertainment Entertainment is another popular raison d'tre why many people prefer to surf the Internet. In fact, the Internet has become quite successful in trapping the multifaceted entertainment industry. Downloading games or just surfing the celebrity websites are some of the uses people have discovered. Even celebrities are using the Internet effectively for promotional campaigns. Besides, there are numerous games that can be downloaded for free. The industry of online gaming has tasted dramatic and phenomenal attention by game lovers. Social Networking One cannot imagine an online life without Facebook or Twitter. Social networking has become so popular amongst youth that it might one day replace physical networking. It has evolved as a great medium to connect with millions of people with similar interests. Apart from finding long-lost friends, you can also look for job, business opportunities on forums, communities etc. Besides, there are chat rooms where users can meet new and interesting people. Some of them may even end up finding their life partners. Online Services The Internet has made life very convenient. With numerous online services you can now perform all your transactions online. You can book tickets for a movie, transfer funds, pay utility bills, taxes etc., right from your home. Some travel websites even plan an Itinerary as per your preferences and take care of airline tickets, hotel reservations etc. e-commerce The concept of e-commerce is used for any type of commercial maneuvering or business deals that involves the transfer of information across the globe via the Internet. It has become a phenomenon associated with any kind of shopping, business deal etc. You name a service, and e-commerce with its giant tentacles engulfing every single product and service will make it available at your doorstep. Websites such as eBay allow you to even bid for homes, buy, sell or auction stuff online. Disadvantages Theft of Personal Information If you use the Internet for online banking, social networking or other services, you may risk a theft to your personal information such as name, address, credit card number etc. Unscrupulous people can access this information through unsecured connections or by planting software and then use your personal details for their benefit. Needless to say, this may land you in serious trouble. Spamming Spamming refers to sending unwanted e-mails in bulk, which provide no purpose and needlessly obstruct the entire system. Such illegal activities can be very frustrating for you as it makes your Internet slower and less reliable. Virus Threat Internet users are often plagued by virus attacks on their systems. Virus programs are inconspicuous and may get activated if you click a seemingly harmless link. Computers connected to the Internet are very prone to targeted virus attacks and may end up crashing. Pornography Pornography is perhaps the biggest disadvantage of the Internet. Internet allows you to access and

download millions of pornographic photos, videos and other X-rated stuff. Such unrestricted access to porn can be detrimental for children and teenagers. It can even play a havoc in marital and social lives of adults. Social Disconnect Thanks to the Internet, people now only meet on social networks. More and more people are getting engulfed in virtual world and drifting apart from their friends and family. Even children prefer to play online games rather than going out and mingling with other kids. This may hamper a healthy social development in children. Thus, the Internet has the potential to make your life simple and convenient, as well as wreak havoc in your life. Its influence is mostly dictated by the choices you make while you are online. With clever use, you can manage to harness its unlimited potential Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/advantages-disadvantages-internet.html

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Shane G Advantages of the Internet: You have information at your fingertips, and you don't even have to know how to spell, or know your ABCs. Someone out there knows the answers to everything you can think of. You can send mail across the world within minutes where snail mail used to take 3-4 days in the states and 2 weeks overseas.

You are connected to a lot of people who have similar interests if you know the right place to find them on the internet. A lot more difficult in person. Disadvantages: The Internet is impersonal. YOu cannot see someone smile or react to your news or words though they may type it (grin). You cannot always trust the answers you get over the internet when you are looking for information. You spend too much time in front of a machine, and not enough time in front of "real" people. YOu need a credit card if you want to buy something either to pay a third party sight, or to pay direct the company you are interested in. IN person, you can always pay by cash. o o
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Greetmir Advantages and Disadvantages of the Internet Internet has been perhaps the most outstanding innovation in the field of communication in the history of mankind. As with every single innovation, internet has its own advantages and disadvantages. But usually, greater magnitude of advantages outweighs its disadvantages. Advantages and Disadvantages of the Internet Enlarge Image During his evolution journey from Neanderthals to Homo erectus and then to Homo sapiens, man has come long way. Because of his continuous quest for more and more amenities and facilities, the nineties have seen a major turn around with the invention of computers. 10 years ago, the term internet was practically anonymous to most of the people. And today internet has become the most ever powerful tool for man throughout the world. The internet is a collection of various services and resources. Although, many people still think e-mail and World Wide Web as the principle constituents of internet, there is lot more in store than e-mail, chat rooms, celebrity web sites and search engines. It also became the best business tool of modern scenario. Today internet has brought a globe in a single room. Right from news across the corner of the world, wealth of knowledge to shopping, purchasing the tickets of your favorite movie-everything is at your finger tips. Internet has great potential and lot to offer however, like every single innovation in science and technology, internet has its own advantages and disadvantages. Advantages Communication: The foremost target of internet has always been the communication. And internet has excelled beyond the expectations .Still; innovations are going on to make it faster, more reliable. By the advent of computers Internet, our earth has reduced and has attained the form of a global village. Now we can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. Today for better communication, we can avail the facilities of e-mail; we can chat for hours with our loved ones. There are plenty messenger services in offering. With help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts, can explore other cultures of different ethnicity. Information Information is probably the biggest advantage internet is offering. The Internet is a virtual treasure trove of information. Any kind of information on any topic under the sun is available on the Internet. The search engines like Google, yahoo is at your service on the Internet. You can almost find any type of data on

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My son's 6th grade teacher asked her students to make miniature booklets, each with 6 quotes that reflected their personal "philosophy of life." I thought it was a fun assignment and was struck by how well the quotes and sayings my middle schooler picked convey who he is. In this lens I'm inviting you to share a few life quotes that reflect your personal philosophy. Funny or serious, sweet or sad-all G-rated quotes are welcome. Can't wait to see what our collective philosophy looks like! (Einstein photo: Ferdinand Schmutzer via Wikimedia Commons ~ public domain)

My Son's Quotes
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."--Albert Einstein "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you."--Frank Lloyd Wright "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."--Plato "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."--William Blake

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."--Desmond Tutu "There never was a good war or a bad peace."--Benjamin Franklin

My Quotes
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind."--Albert Schweitzer "If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."--John Lennon "Where words fail, music speaks."--Hans Christian Andersen "Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much."--Oscar Wilde "Where there is great love, there are always miracles."--Willa Cather "Ain't nothin' to it but to do it."--Maya Angelou More about me

Nan's Quotes
"If you'll laugh about it in ten years, why wait?"--Nan "Do as you will, but harm none."--The Wiccan Rede "Any act of love and beauty is my ritual."--Doreen Valiente More about Nan

Heather's Quotes
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."--Oscar Wilde "My religion is kindness."--the Dalai Lama "Always have a backup plan."--Heather "The secret to life is to want what you get."--Heather "And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."--The Beatles "Never pay retail!" More about Heather

Holley's Quotes
"There is always a price to pay."--Christine Feehan "You get what you play for."--unknown "Life is just what you make it."--Donny Osmond

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AJ's Quotes
"Better to fail with honour than to succeed with fraud."--Sophocles "One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."--John F Kennedy "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass, but rather learning to dance in the rain."-Anonymous "No man can become rich, without himself enriching others."--Andrew Carnegie "Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."--Anonymous "Praise in public, criticise in private."--AJ2008 More about AJ

Amanda's Quotes
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."--Thomas H. Huxley "Religion is a magic device for turning unanswerable questions into unquestionable answers."--Art Gecko "Materialism: buying things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people that don't matter." "Don't judge a book by its cover." "When all else fails, follow the instructions." "Do, or do not. There is no try."--Yoda More about Amanda

Ken's Quotes
"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."-- Abraham Lincoln "Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."--Franklin P. Jones More about Ken

Lizzy's Quotes
"Learn from the past, live in the present, and plan for the future." "Cheerfulness will open doors when other keys fail." "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." "One thing you can learn by watching the clock is that it passes the time by keeping its hands busy."

More about Lizzy

Spirituality's Quotes
"There's not religion higher than truth."--Theosophical Society credo "If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled."--Lao Tzu "He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh."--Quran "A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return."-Jewish Proverb "There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."--Hindu Proverb More about Spirituality(Katinka)

Puzzlemaker's Quotes
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."--Albert Einstein "Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself."-Ralph Waldo Emerson "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."--Theodore Roosevelt More about Puzzlemaker(Paige)

Janiece's Quotes
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."--Richard Bach "The more we give love, the greater our capacity to do so."--David R. Hawkins The way to God is ever within the heart, within the loving heart."--Harold Klemp "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."--Albert Einstein "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."--Wayne Dyer "There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go."--Richard Bach More about Janiece

Mary Beth's Quotes

"Sometimes the best things in life happen after you've done what you're 'supposed' to do and are free to follow your dreams." "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."--Theodore Roosevelt "Whatever you are, be a good one."--Abraham Lincoln More about Mary Beth

Bev's Quotes
"Children make your life important."--Erma Bombeck "I'd rather be sorry for something I've done than for something I didn't do."--Kris Kristofferson "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It just means that you have decided to overlook the imperfections." "I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for man to depend simply upon himself."-Lone Man (Teton Sioux) "Don't judge another man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins."-- Native American saying More about Bev

Stargazer's Quote
""As you ramble on through life Brother whatever be your goal Keep your eye upon the doughnut And not upon the hole." More about Stargazer (Dianne)

Miss Poutine's Quotes

"We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity." --Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank "If hard work was such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it to themselves." --Lane Kirkland 'How soon '"not now" becomes "never."'

--Martin Luther More about Miss Poutine

Mimi's Quotes
"The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people."--Tolstoy "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."--Socrates "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."--Gandhi "We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are."--Anais Nin "To err is human; to moo is bovine."--Unknown (Gotta have some giggles.) More about Mimi (GrowWear)

Dr. Shakeel Ansari's Quote

"To be small and shine than to be big and cast shadow."

Heather's Quotes
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."--Mahatma Ghandi "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite direction."--Albert Einstein "This above all: to thine own self be true..."--Shakespeare "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."--Paul McCartney "Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible."--Bob Harper More about Heather (hlkljgk)

Starving Artist's Quotes

"What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism." "Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual." "Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two." "A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful."--All from Octavio Paz More about Starving Artist

CherylK's Quotes
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."--H. Jackson Brown "You can't have a dream-come-true if you don't have a dream."--"from the musical Oklahoma, I think...but it was something my mom always said" "Peace: It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."--unknown "Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking."--Tim McMahon More about CherylK

Lizzy Jean's Quote

"Learn from the past, live in the present, and plan for the future." More about Elizabeth Jean Allen

The Romantic Guy's quotes

"If you do not try, you have 100% chance of failure." "Il n'y d'amour que celui qui s'est construit, ni de que celui qui s'est exprime dans une oeuvre d'art."-J.P. Sartre (Translation: "There is no love but the one that has been built, and no genius but the one expressed in a work of art.") "The only sacrifice you are allowed to do is the one of yourself."--me "Back then I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world, then I looked at you and smiled. Why? Because no matter how unlucky I was, it was worth it because of you." "They said time was going to heal you, but the only cure is the love you are waiting for."

Maria's Quotes
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."--Mahatma Ghandi "There never was a good war or a bad peace."--Benjamin Franklin More about Maria(eccles1)

Karlyn's Quotes
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."--John 3:16

"You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven"--Matthew 5:14-16

Shirl's Quotes
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."-- Buddha "God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."--C.S. Lewis "It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate."--James Baldwin "When the world desires the power of love more than the love of power, then it will know peace."-Jimmy Hendrix "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr More about Shirl

Diana's Quotes
"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein "All the windows of my heart I open to the day." ~John Greenleaf "O to have my life henceforth a poem of new joys!" ~Walt Whitman "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." ~Helen Keller "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. ~ Goethe "Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." ~Howard Thurman More about Diana (RenaissanceWoman2010)

A Goofy Idea's Quotes

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."--Christopher Morley "If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right."--Mary Kay Ash "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."--Danny Kaye "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."--Katherine Hepburn

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."--Muhammad Ali Fall down seven times, stand up eight.-Japanese proverb More about agoofyidea

DavidDove's Quotes
"Tomorrow is promised to no one, so live this moment." "The universe is neutral, it isn't stopping you doing anything, are you? Don't stand in your own light." "If you keep doing what you have always done, you will keep getting what you always got -- change!" "No good turn goes unpunished; feel the pain and do it anyway." More about DavidDove

Annbulance2000's Quotes
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." -- Emile Zola "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." -- Henry Ford "Be nice to people on your way up, because you meet them on your way down." -- Jimmy Durante More about Annbulance2000

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"You can't have everything... where would you put it?" ~Steven Wright

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