вторник, 21 февраля 2012 г.


Internet and Modern Life
The Internet has already entered our ordinary life. Everybody knows that the
Internet is a global computer network, which embraces hundred of millions of users  all over the world and helps us to communicate with each other.
The history of Internet began in the United States in 1969. It was a military
experiment, designed to help to survive during a nuclear war, when everything around might be polluted by radiation and it would be dangerous to get out for any living being to get some information to anywhere.

Invention of modems, special devices allowing your computer to send the information through the telephone line, has opened doors to the Internet for millions of people.
Nobody knows exactly how many people use the Internet today, because there are hundred of millions of users and their number is growing.
Nowadays the most popular Internet service is e-mail. Most of the people use the network only for sending and receiving e-mail messages. They can do it either they are at home or in the internet clubs or at work.

However, there are some problems. The most important problem is security. When you send an e-mail, your message can travel through many different networks and computers. The data is constantly being directed towards its destination by special computers called routers. Because of this, it is possible to get into any of the computers along the route, intercept and even change the data being sent over the Internet. But there are many encoding programs available.
.Another big and serious problem of the net is control. Yes, there is no effective control in the internet, because a huge amount of information circulating through the net. It is like a library and market together. In the future, the situation might change, but now we have what we have.
As for me I use the Internet for…