the+internet+abdul+ali

The Internet is a large group of [|computers]   [|that are connected to each other]. The internet is used to send information quickly between computers around the world. It has millions of smaller [|domestic] ,  [|academic]  ,  [|business]  , and  [|government]  networks, which together carry lots of different  [|information]  and services. The Internet was created in the United States by the "United States Department of Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency" (known as //DARPA//). It was first connected in October, 1969. The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in 1989 by a British (UK) man named Tim Berners-Lee. Today, people can pay a fee to access the Internet from Internet Service Providers. Some services on the Internet cost nothing to use. Sometimes the people who offer these free services use advertising to make money from them. The alternative (other) name, "Net" came from "inter (net)". The Internet is used for many things, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. The most used service on the Internet is the World Wide Web (which is also called the "Web"). The Web contains websites, blogs, and also wikis - including Wikipedia. WebPages on the Web can be seen and read by anyone (unless the page needs a password, or it is blocked). The second major use of the Internet is to send and receive e-mail. E-mail is private and goes from one user to another. Instant messaging (such as AIM or ICQ) is similar to email, but allows two or more people to chat to each other much faster. Some governments consider the Internet to be a bad thing, and block all or part of it. For example, the Chinese government thinks that Wikipedia is bad. Many times no one in China can read it or add to it. Some parents block parts of the Internet they think are bad for children to see. Well-known examples of the whole Internet being blocked are in North Korea and Myanmar. It has bean said that the 2 things that made the internet popular was star treck and pornography. The third most popular thing is gaming websites; the most popular one is miniclip. There are many ways of surfing the internet. One of which is using a different browser. There are many to choose from, including Google chrome, Mozilla Firefox, opera mini, safari, landscape and many more to choose from. A HTTP cookie is files of text sent by a server to a web browser. They are used for security, making logs and so on. They can be used for tracking browsing behaviour. This is why some countries and continents have made laws. A problem is that they can be used to attack networks and they are not accurate. Cookies have been mistaken for computer programs. Cookies cannot do much on its own. It’s simply a piece of data. They are often called spyware or viruses but they are none of these. Most web browsers choose to accept cookies. Also, some people can find it offending as they don’t want people to know what they go on. So you can look at them in good ways and bad ways. The Internet can also be a dangerous place. Information people put on the Internet is not always checked, and some may be not true. Some may even be harmful. Also, if you send information through the internet, sometimes other people can read it even when they are not supposed to. For example, Face book has had some problems with privacy settings. Posting any information about yourself on a website is often a bad idea unless you are very sure what you are doing. A good way to check for a secure website is to make sure the URL starts with https:// instead of http://, this means it is a secure site. (This only stops other people from reading what you type. It does not mean the website is safe).
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