Assignmen- Essay : What is the Role of the Internet? 1200 Words on APA format

Assignment: What is the Role of the Internet?

Objective of Exercise: When you think of the internet, you may consider it to be the world at your fingertips. The internet can help us find a variety of information, from locating a lost love one to finding our favorite recipes. Over the years, the internet has changed considerably and can often times be a challenge to use.

 For this assignment, consider and address the following items:
• What are the advantages of using the internet?
• What are some disadvantages of using the internet?
• What are some ethical issues to consider, with regards to social media?
• Name some approaches you use to safeguard your personal information when using the internet.

ARTICLE ONE

FROM COLLINS DICTIONARY OF BUSINESS

a global ‘web’ of COMPUTER networks which use the same agreed ‘protocols’ (agreed methods of communication). The WORLD WIDE WEB (www or ‘the web’) is a vast collection of computers able to support multi-media formats and accessible via web-browsers’ (search and navigation tools). Data stored in these computers (‘servers’) is organized into pages with hypertext links, each page having a unique address.

Connection to the web usually requires access to a personal computer, a modem and a telephone line, although it is now possible to receive television-based Internet services.

The Internet is increasingly used by businesses for the conduct of electronic commerce (E-COMMERCE, for short), and has thus provided a new powerful alternative means to conventional distribution channels of selling goods. See MARKET.

In 2004 around 9 million households in the UK owned personal computers with some 7 million of these using the Internet. The number of people worldwide using the Internet is estimated at 300 million and rising rapidly. See CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT.

Reference:

Internet. (2006). In C. Pass (Ed.), Collins Dictionary of Business (3rd ed.). London, UK: Collins. Retrieved from http://proxy.amberton.edu/login?url=https://search… 

Internet
Although the Internet is an immense global network that reaches billions of users, it began as a relatively simple computer network called ARPANET, funded by a Department of Defense research agency. ARPANET linked educational institutions and research facilities. Users could transfer files, send email, and post messages in a forum called USENET. Later, the development of HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) allowed users to make connections from one electronic document to others by using hyperlinks. Such hyperlinked electronic documents (called webpages) can consist of text, pictures, and sound and video files. Over a billion of these webpages form the World Wide Web. The transmission of webpages, emails, files, and similar electronic data takes place on the massive network known as the Internet. What began as a simple way for military and educational researchers to communicate has developed into a new way of life.

Ref.

Internet. (2014). In Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries (Ed.), The American Heritage Student Science Dictionary (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin