Internet is a telecommunications network that uses telephone lines, cables, satellites and wireless

connections to connect computers and other devices to the World Wide Web (www). All modern
computers can connect to the internet, as can many mobile phones and some televisions, video
game consoles and other devices. Internet can be also described as a global system of
interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link billions of
devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consist of billions of private, public,
academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of
electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. In this essay we are going to explain in
details the facilities and services offered on internet.
The internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-
linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail,
telephony, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing.

Internet provides us with World Wide Web. Many people use the term Internet and World Wide
Web, or just the web, interchangeably, but the two terms are not synonymous. The World Wide
Web is the primary application that billions of people use on internet and it has changed their
lives immeasurable. However, the Internet provides many other services. The Web is a global set
documents, images and other resources, logically interrelated by hyperlinks and referenced with
Uniform resource Identifiers (URIs). URIs symbolically identify services, servers and other
databases and the documents and resources that they can provide. Hypertext Transfers protocol
(HTTP) is the main access protocol of the World Wide Web. Web services also use HTTP to
allow software systems to communicate in order to share and exchange business logical data.

Internet enables people to share data across the world within seconds and at very less cost. File
sharing is an example of transferring large amounts of data across the Internet. A computer file
can be emailed to customers, colleagues and friends as an attachment. It can be uploaded to a
website or File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for easy download by others. It can be put into a
“share location” or onto a file server for instant use by colleagues. The load of bulk downloads to
many users can be eased by the use of “mirror “server or peer-to-peer networks. In any of these
cases, access to the file may be controlled by user authentication, the transit of the file over the
internet may be obscured by the encryption and money may change hands for access to the file.
The price can be paid by the remote charging of funds, for example, a credit card whose details
are also passed - usually fully encrypted – across the internet. The origin and authenticity of the
file received may be checked by digital signatures or by other message digests. These simple
features of the Internet’ over a worldwide basis, are changing the production, sales, and
distribution of anything that can be reduced to a computer file transmission. This includes all
manner ofprinting publication, software products, news, music film, video, photography,
graphics and the other arts. This in turn has caused seismic shifts in each of the existing
industries that previously controlled the production and distribution of these products.

Internet enables the users to discussion different topics with other people. For example, an
Environmental Health Technician can have E-mail discussion with his colleagues who may be
near or far away from them on different issues that are related to the health of people in the
society.

Newsgroup is also one of the services provided by Internet. Newsgroups are discussion groups
on internet. They are used for free exchange of information. A user sends a message to the
newsgroup site. Other users read this message from the site and reply. Newsgroups are provided
by special computers called news servers.
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