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Post by Echo on Mar 3, 2015 20:13:37 GMT
The Internet is a network connecting computers across the world. It has its origins in military and academic projects dating back to the 1960s, but began to be more widely available from the end of the 1980s. The creation of the World Wide Web (1989) and web browsers (early 1990s) gave ordinary people easy ways of getting around the Internet. Over the past fifteen years, millions of different websites have been set up, giving people the chance to shop, do business, play, learn and communicate online. Over the same period it has become much easier, cheaper and faster to get online in order to do these things.
Now more than 30% of the global population have access to the Internet. Continent-wise, this breaks down as: Europe: 58.3%, North America 78.3%, Latin America 36.2%, Africa 11.4%, Asia 23.8% and Oceania 60.1%. These figures are growing all the time, as technology designed to access the Internet becomes both more mobile and much cheaper to produce. The arrival of the Internet has vastly changed the way in which people search and access information. News travels more quickly than ever, and current affairs can be discussed all over the world instantaneously via forums, blogs, and social networks. Search engines like Google and Wikipedia have now become ubiquitous starting points for researching anything from minor queries to academic reports. Many people also maintain social links through the Internet with services such like Facebook, Skype, and Flickr, to name but a few. Research in the UK has shown that the average adult spends around 22 hours 15 minutes online each month.
Some believe the Internet is dominating the lives of its users. Nicholas Carr in his book The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way we Think, Read and Remember, that all this time spend online cannot be healthy, whereas other have cheered the increased possibilities for research, meeting new people and keeping in contact with one another. The strongly contested debate remains as to whether the internet is an active force for good in society or not.
(from idebate.org)
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Post by mac on Sept 24, 2018 10:06:08 GMT
Some believe the Internet is dominating the lives of its users. It is, but I think it's still good. I grew up without the Internet and the pros outweigh the cons. It makes your everyday life easier. |
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Post by Echo on Oct 12, 2018 11:10:09 GMT
We cant live without internet nowadays. People keep repeating this and I guess it's true. Try to live off grid for a while - like being on a cabin up in the mountsins - and you become increasingly restless. After a while, you get irritable and annoying to those around you. Without a daily dose of online activities, life is surely difficult if you're cut off from the things you are used to for some time. |
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Post by mac on Oct 17, 2018 15:32:18 GMT
Through the Internet, people with particular inclinations and interests have access to the dark net, with porn, drugs and terrorism.
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Post by Echo on Nov 10, 2018 9:27:24 GMT
Even with that included, I think the pros outweigh the cons.
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Post by lurkerqueen on Dec 30, 2018 17:00:08 GMT
The Internet is more good and bad. The bad part is all the jerks that for various reasons are trying to sabotage it for money or the satisfacton of experiencing others suffering their viruses, worms and other malware.
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Post by Joey12 on Dec 31, 2018 6:10:15 GMT
I grew up without it and one day as I get older I'll not have it again. I could live without it but choose to live with it. If I didn't use it I would read more and watch TV more. Once and a while like when I'm on vacation I won't be here or other web sites. I'll mostly be reading more. Just before Christmas we took a short trip. I didn't take my laptop even though it logs into their Internet automatically. I choose to hang with family and not the Internet...really didn't even think. One day we will take a longer vacation and the laptop will stay at home and I'll be reading on the plane and at night.
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Post by Echo on Jan 3, 2019 8:17:12 GMT
Diversity is good and everybody should have more than one way to learn things. But I guess it's hard to get the new generation of online users to go back to paper books.
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Post by otterman on Jan 3, 2019 22:32:26 GMT
The Internet is good as long as it's understood and used responsibly.
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Post by Joey12 on Jan 4, 2019 4:13:57 GMT
Diversity is good and everybody should have more than one way to learn things. But I guess it's hard to get the new generation of online users to go back to paper books. I have a friend that won't go back to paper books. They think I should switch but I like books and I like them to be hardbacks. They stand on the shelf better once read. |
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Post by mac on Jan 9, 2019 8:27:44 GMT
I haven't bought a book for more than one year now, neither paper nor electronic. I get the info I need from Internet searches and read some articles that I find.
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Post by Echo on Feb 2, 2019 9:53:23 GMT
Diversity is good and everybody should have more than one way to learn things. But I guess it's hard to get the new generation of online users to go back to paper books. I have a friend that won't go back to paper books. They think I should switch but I like books and I like them to be hardbacks. They stand on the shelf better once read. I think that's also a matter of enough shelf space. Lack of it can be dealt with in two ways: 1) You give or throw away a book once you have read it or 2) You switch to electronic books with a storage system that doesn't occopy any physical space. |
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Post by vortex on Feb 4, 2019 18:11:55 GMT
Sure, Echo, the Internet is dominating our lives. No doubt about it. But it's a natural consequence of the technological development. Our medical records and correspondence with health services is now online. Whan can be more basic than that? |
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Post by mac on Feb 8, 2019 8:25:42 GMT
Without the Internet, our society as we know it would come to a grinding halt. So we should be grateful for it, while being aware of its shortcomings and pitfalls.
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Post by Echo on Feb 27, 2019 9:05:45 GMT
It seems as general emails will soon be a thing of the past. Instead, we will log on to various sites and do our correspondence there. Good for us and bad for the virus developers. smiley-signs004
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