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- 1. TECHNOLOGY CREATES SOCIAL ISOLATION AND NEUROSIS By: Konrad Warford
- 2. • Introduction • What is Technology? • history of internet • uses of internet. • Communication • Research • Education • Financial Transaction • Real Time Updates • types of internet browsers • Mozilla • Google Chrome • Internet Explorer • Conclusion
- 3. INTRODUCTION • a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. • a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually preceded by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
- 4. WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY • Technology is a body of knowledge devoted to creating tools, processing actions and extracting of materials. The term ‘Technology” is wide and everyone has their own way of understanding the meaning of technology. • the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry."advances in computer technology" • machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.
- 5. HISTORY OF INTERNET • establishment of the Internet as we know it today, from its inception as an idea in the 1950s until the early 21st Century. The varied and complex social and technological transformations we witness today have their roots in the way the Internet has been developed through research grants from the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency. • the massive expansion of the Internet into a global network during the 1990s when business and personal computers with different operating systems joined the universal network; the instant and growing success of social networking. • By the late 1980s, a significant number of people (mostly professionals) were using email but the Internet was not in the public eye. I was a student at Oxford University at that time and can testify that using the Internet was a most frustrating experience. Most websites were not accessible. Navigating between sites was anything but seamless. It was easier to retrieve information from the library in the good, old-fashioned way.
- 6. USES OF INTERNET Communication • At the moment the easiest thing that can be done using the internet is that we can communicate with the people living far away from us with extreme ease. Earlier the communication used to be a daunting task but all that chanced once internet came into the life of the common people. Now people can not only chat but can also do the video conferencing. Research • Now the point that has been placed next is research. In order to do research you need to go through hundreds of books as well as the references and that was one of the most difficult jobs to do earlier. Since the internet came into life, everything is available just a click away.
- 7. USES OF INTERNET Education • The next point that we have in this list is education. Yes you read it right. Education is one of the best things that the internet can provide. There are a number of books, reference books, online help centres, expert’s views and other study oriented material on the internet that can make the learning process very easier as well as a fun learning experience. Financial Transaction • The next use mentioned here is financial transaction. Financial transaction is the term which is used when there is exchange of money. With the use of internet in the financial transaction, your work has become a lot easier
- 8. USES OF INTERNET Real Time Updates • Real time updates have been placed at the number fifth position here. This has been mentioned here in regards to the news and other happenings that may be on-going in different parts of the world but with the use of internet we come to know about it very easily and without any difficulty.
- 9. TYPES OF INTERNET BROWSERS Mozilla • From History of Firefox: The project which became Firefox started as an experimental branch of the Mozilla Suite called m/b (or mozilla/browser). After it had been sufficiently developed, binaries for public testing appeared in September 2002 under the name Phoenix. • Mozilla came out on September 23, 2002 • The origins of Firefox can be traced directly to Netscape, a company whose Web browser, Netscape Navigator, was the dominant browser before Microsoft developed Internet Explorer. The internal company name for the browser was Mozilla.Mar 12, 2012
- 10. TYPES OF INTERNET BROWSERS Google Chrome • Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google. It was first released in September 2008, for Microsoft Windows, and was later ported to Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.
- 11. TYPES OF INTERNET BROWSERS Internet Explorer • Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year.
- 12. THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE INTERNET. Advantages Of The Internet • Unlimited Communication The Internet has made it easy for people to communicate with others because it is cheap and convenient. • Unlimited Communication The Internet is swamped with information about anything and everything. • Online Services and E-commerce Today it is possible to carry out financial transactions online • Easy Sharing • Thanks to the Internet, sharing information is fast and seamless • Entertainment This is one of the major reasons why many people enjoy surfing the Internet – entertainment. Disadvantages Of The Internet • Spam Mail Spamming is the sending of unwanted and useless emails to random people. • Virus, Trojan & Other Malware These are malicious programs that plague the Internet time and again. They attack a computer with the sole intent of causing harm. • Leakage of Private Information The fact that the Internet has become a market place has also seen a rise in fraud cases. Addiction to Internet Just like everything else, people also get addicted to the Internet. This may sound bizarre, but some people spend more than their fair amount of time on the Internet. • Kids Exposed to Adults-Only Content The fact that Internet has all information you could ever need is both a good thing and a bad things.
- 13. CONCLUSION • The pros and cons of the internet is you have to be carefully what you look up or where you are when you are looking it up cause if your in public people can hack into yput stuff. • And there's a lot of thing you can look up on the internet