Impact of Internet On Society With Special Review On Home-Shopping (E-Commerce).

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IMPACT OF INTERNET ON SOCIETY WITH SPECIAL REVIEW ON HOME-SHOPPING (E-COMMERCE)

Introduction

Internet is any network that connects two or more computer networks to each other. In theory, any network of networks is an Internet. For example if the five computers in any office are connected to a network of computers at a local university, then that is an internet-a network between networks.

However when people talk about ''the internet'' they are usually referring to the internet that spans the globe, and that connects individuals, businesses, universities, governments, countries and continents.

The reason that this ''Internet'' has become so large is that it utilises a particularly adaptable kind of software. The software controls how computers communicate with each other, and it allows any kind of computer to ''talk'' to any other kind. This flexibility is what has allowed ''the Internet'' to get so big: anyone can hook up to it.

As an Internet user, one becomes a member of the first truly planet-wide community and part of a great experiment in nearly instantaneous communication in words, pictures, sounds, and video. Here you can find more information and entertainment than you could possibly absorb in a lifetime.

How Did The Internet Start? (History of Internet)

The Internet began as a U.S military experiment called DoD ARPA net (Department of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) over 20 years ago. Because of the potential for nuclear war, and the fact that more and more aspects of national defence relied on computers, the decision was made to create a completely fault- tolerant computer network.

A fault-tolerant network was the goal because such a network would allow for the loss of certain segments of the network. For example, in a fault-tolerant network a computer in Kansas City could be destroyed without cutting off communications between Washington D.C and Los Angeles. The system would immediately re-route all communications through Dallas, so messages would still be able to get from coast to coast.

At the same time that ARPA net was being developed, academic researchers were increasingly using computers. Some of the problems they were tackling required access to the most powerful computers in the world. Arrangements were made to give non-military researchers access to a handful of super computers via the Internet as it existed then.

At that time, windows, the Macintosh system, or any type of graphical intertace, didn't exist except in experimental environments. But just the ability to send an electronic ''letter'' to a friend, or trade scientific papers with someone doing similar research, created a huge demand for internet access. The largest contribution to the internet, however, was made by a few independent computer networking masters who rather than waiting for the government to do so, got together and figured out the standards that could be used by virtually any computer to communicate with others, making the world wide internet possible.

Eventually, with the internet up and running, large companies who had purchased and installed national and international computer networks of their own saw that they could better utilise resources by connecting their computers to the internet.
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Today's Internet is a result of that original small experiment in maintaining control over national defence in case of war. At that time barely one hundred people participated in the Internet. Now, estimates of the number of users range from 10 Million to 30 Million. Nearly every country participates in the Internet, with over 25% of the computers located in Europe.

With the development of Internet it has given rise to home shopping, which has really played apart in our day to day life. To start with, if one is new to the whole process of home ...

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