The Internet: Pros& Cons
• How much time per day do you spend on browsing the Internet? • Do you use it for job, entertainment or for communication? • When do you get your first access to the Internet?
• Thanks to the increasing accessibility of the Internet, the popularity of the web has exploded over the last 10 years. The web is now used for a number of different purposes including online shopping, social networking, games, news, travel information, business, advertising and much more.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE INTERNET: Although the World Wide Web is often referred to as the Internet, the two are not the same things. The Internet is a huge network of networks that links computers together all over the world using a range of wires and wireless technologies. The World Wide Web is the collection of linked pages that are accessed using the Internet and a web browser.
• 1. The internet accrued 50 million users in just 5 years. It took TV 13 years to do that. • 2. Nowadays we have Mozilla Firefox & Internet Explorer but the very first widely popular web browser was Mosaic which was available from 1993 and discontinued in 1997. • 3. 20% of the world’s population, that is over 1 billion people(1000. 000), are internet users. • 4. People who use social networking sites such as Facebook , Google+ and Twitter will use 10% of their entire life time on these sites.
• 6. 19% of married couples meet online, making it the most successful method for meeting the “one. ” Following an online introduction the most successful methods for meeting a future wife or husband continues to be through work or friends, with each of these methods getting 17% of married couples together. • 7. 75% of Swedish people use the internet making Sweden a country with the largest percentage of internet users. • 8. There is no country in the world that cannot access the internet although Governments in certain countries still continue to severely restrict its use. In North Korea only Government officials and named officers have access to the net and China is famous for restricting its public’s access to certain sites. •
• English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee is regarded as having invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Since then he has continued the development of web standards and other web related projects. • On August 6, 1991, the first website http: //info. cern. ch went online. • A Ne. XT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee as the world's first web server and also to write the first web browser - World. Wide. Web - in 1990.
