The Internet has dramatically changed
the way people get informed, interact and communicate in the 21st century.
Distribution of information and knowledge is nowadays carried out more and more
via the internet. It is characteristic that new terms such as blogs, bots,
wikis and podcasting were unknown some years ago, and are still not registered
inmost (paper) dictionaries. Here lies the Internet
The
Internet has a wide variety of uses. It provides an excellent means for
disseminating information and communicating with other people in all regions of
the world. While the greatest use of the Internet has been sharing information,
other sources of use are rapidly developing. The following are other
examples of current Internet uses:
1. Technical Papers
Originally, the Internet was only used by the government and
universities. Research scientists used the Internet to communicate with other
scientists at different labs and to access powerful computer systems at distant
computing facilities. Scientists also shared the results of their work in
technical papers stored locally on their computer system in ftp sites.
Researchers from other facilities used the Internet to access the ftp directory
and obtain these technical papers.
2. Share Company Information
Commercial companies are now using the Web for many purposes. One of the first ways that commercial companies used the Web was to share information with their employees. Sterling Software's Web page informs employees about such things as training schedules and Guidelines. There is also some information which is company private and access is restricted to company employees only. Another company example is Sun Microsystems which similarily contains general information about the Sun Microsystems company.
3. Product Information
One of the ways businesses share information is to present their
product information on a Web page. Some examples are: Cray Research
and GM's
Pontiac Site. The Web provides an easy and efficient way for
companies to distribute product information to their current and potential
customers.
4. Advertising
Along these lines, companies are beginning to actually advertise
online. Some examples of different ways to advertise online are Netscape's Ad Page.
Netscape has a list of advertising companies. They also use a banner for
advertisements on their Yahoo Web Page. Starwave similarly uses banner advertisement.
These advertisements are created in the established advertising model where the
advertising is positioned between rather than within editorial items.
5. Magazines
Magazines are starting to realize that they can attract customers
online. Examples of magazines now published online are Outside,
Economist,
and Business
Week. These magazines are still published in hard copy, but they are
now also available online. Many of these publications are available free
sometimes because of the time delay (i.e. publications online are past issues)
or usually to draw in subscribers for a free initial trial period. Some of
these publications may remain free online if advertisers pay for the
publications with their advertisement banners.
6. Newspapers
Some newspapers are
beginning to publish online. The San Jose Mercury News is a full newspaper
online, while the Seattle
Times offers just classified ads and educational information. The Dow
Jones Wall Street Journal publishes its front page online with
highlighted links from the front page to complete stories. The Journal also
provides links to briefing books, which provide financial information on the
company, stock performance, and recent articles and press releases
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