anonymous
2008-06-26 08:30:15 UTC
The Internet
Today the internet is the largest computer system in the world. It is not actually a single network, but a global 'web' of thousands of interconnected networks allowing many millions of computer users to share and exchange information in real time. Hundreds of thousands of computers linked to the Internet hold vast quantities of data that you can access from your PC whenever you want to,wherever you are, at work, at home or while travelling. The Internet offers everything from academic websites to shopping on-line. If you connect to the internet in Italy, it is just as easy to view information stored on another computer in th UK or the US as it is to view what is stored on a computer in your home town. Today more than half of all Internet traffic is commercial, and the business traffic is growing rapidly. The Internet allows a rapid exchange PARTE 1