The Internet Today Module 2 Section 2

Reasons of Success?? Simple freedom Cheap No bosses, no board of directors, no censors Cheap Each person is responsible for their own machine and line Capabilities provided are popular

Metcalfe’s Law The value of a network is proportional to the square of the numbers of it’s users

Original Uses Short Message Transfer Remote Login File Transfer

Today’s Uses of the Internet E-mail Discussion groups File transfer Telecommuting Research Chat Finance Shopping/Commerce Advertising Entertainment Education Electronic publishing

Impacts of WWW Opening of access to information Reduction of delay for information Leveling of traditional interaction hierarchies Evolution of hypertext Text is no longer linear Search time is reduced Multimedia resources

Advantages Reduced need for transportation Saves money Exposure to things not available before Reach more people

Everyday Uses of Computer Technology – 1980’s Word processing – document preparation Telecommuting Children’s games – recreation

Everyday Uses – 1990’s Children’s school work, education Adult remote education at home Family communications, correspondence Reading news events, casual reading Family travel, recreation Family records

Everyday Uses – 1990’s Home banking, financial management In-store and other purchases ATM, debit card Home shopping TV, on-line services, telephone Trading on the stock market

Everyday Uses - Future Household automated tasks Smart home Smart appliances Home robotics Home information systems

Disadvantages Reliability Privacy Secure transfers of information Equity, cost, and universal access Stalking Identity theft Offensive material and libel Censorship Illegal activity – viruses, theft, piracy, gambling Intellectual property and Copyright

References Use of Internet Internet future http://www.census.gov/prod/2001pubs/p23-207.pdf Internet future http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011026S0109 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/3928.html http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/10-12internet2.asp http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2000/nov15/internet.html http://www.botspot.com/Books/14.html http://www.jafsoft.com/misc/course/course_9.html