Internet
The Internet is a worldwide collection of
interconnected computer networks. Today’s most personal computers are linked to
millions of computers via the Internet, also called Net. The networks are in
government agencies, commercial businesses, colleges, and every other type of
organization. Literally billions of pages of information, images, songs,
videos, and so on are readily accessible to anytime with a personal computer
and Internet access.
Several
educational institutions, organizations and business houses have established
their own sites. Even government organizations have their own official web
sites. Through this sites people can interact with the government. This
has popularized the concept of e-governance. Now, many banks established the
one line banking through the Internet.
Major
internet services are, electronic mail, Internet telephony, World wide web
(www), Internet chat, News groups, etc.