Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is for PORN!!

Ambatchmasterpublisher USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred ambatchmasterpublisher United States to create ambatchmasterpublisher Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead.[1][2] ARPA created ambatchmasterpublisher Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to furambatchmasterpublisherr ambatchmasterpublisher research of ambatchmasterpublisher Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems togeambatchmasterpublisherr for ambatchmasterpublisher first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head ambatchmasterpublisher IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.

Licklider had moved from ambatchmasterpublisher Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT in 1950, after becoming interested in information technology. At MIT, he served on a committee that established Lincoln Laboratory and worked on ambatchmasterpublisher SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought ambatchmasterpublisher first production PDP-1 computer and conducted ambatchmasterpublisher first public demonstration of time-sharing.

At ambatchmasterpublisher IPTO, Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based ambatchmasterpublisher technology on ambatchmasterpublisher work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for ambatchmasterpublisher U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, ambatchmasterpublisher first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called ambatchmasterpublisher ARPANET, one of ambatchmasterpublisher "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, ambatchmasterpublisher British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create ambatchmasterpublisher first international packet switched network, referred to as ambatchmasterpublisher International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and ambatchmasterpublisher US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981.

Ambatchmasterpublisher first TCP/IP-wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983, when ambatchmasterpublisher United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become ambatchmasterpublisher NSFNet.

It was ambatchmasterpublishern followed by ambatchmasterpublisher opening of ambatchmasterpublisher network to commercial interests in 1985. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, ambatchmasterpublishern later merged with, ambatchmasterpublisher NSFNet include Usenet, BITNET and ambatchmasterpublisher various commercial and educational networks, such as X.25, Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet) was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dial-up access in cities throughout ambatchmasterpublisher U.S. that had been in operation since ambatchmasterpublisher 1970s. This network eventually merged with ambatchmasterpublisher oambatchmasterpublisherrs in ambatchmasterpublisher 1990s as ambatchmasterpublisher TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. Ambatchmasterpublisher ability of TCP/IP to work over ambatchmasterpublisherse pre-existing communication networks, especially ambatchmasterpublisher international X.25 IPSS network, allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of ambatchmasterpublisher term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.


Growth
Ambatchmasterpublisher network gained a public face in ambatchmasterpublisher 1990s. On August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles ambatchmasterpublisher border between France and Switzerland, publicized ambatchmasterpublisher new World Wide Web project, two years after Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and ambatchmasterpublisher first few Web pages at CERN.

An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW based upon HyperCard. It was eventually replaced in popularity by ambatchmasterpublisher Mosaic web browser. In 1993 ambatchmasterpublisher National Center for Supercomputing Applications at ambatchmasterpublisher University of Illinois released version 1.0 of Mosaic, and by late 1994 ambatchmasterpublisherre was growing public interest in ambatchmasterpublisher previously academic/technical Internet. By 1996 ambatchmasterpublisher word "Internet" was coming into common daily usage, frequently misused to refer to ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web.

Meanwhile, over ambatchmasterpublisher course of ambatchmasterpublisher decade, ambatchmasterpublisher Internet successfully accommodated ambatchmasterpublisher majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks, such as FidoNet, have remained separate) During ambatchmasterpublisher 1990s, it was estimated that ambatchmasterpublisher Internet grew by 100% per year, with a brief period of explosive growth in 1996 and 1997.[3] This growth is often attributed to ambatchmasterpublisher lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of ambatchmasterpublisher network, as well as ambatchmasterpublisher non-proprietary open nature of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over ambatchmasterpublisher network.


Today's Internet

A rack of serversAside from ambatchmasterpublisher complex physical connections that make up its infrastructure, ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is facilitated by bi- or multi-lateral commercial contracts (e.g., peering agreements), and by technical specifications or protocols that describe how to exchange data over ambatchmasterpublisher network. Indeed, ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is essentially defined by its interconnections and routing policies.

As of June 10, 2007, 1.133 billion people use ambatchmasterpublisher Internet according to Internet World Stats. Writing in ambatchmasterpublisher Harvard International Review, philosopher N.J.Slabbert, a writer on policy issues for ambatchmasterpublisher Washington DC-based Urban Land Institute, has asserted that ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is fast becoming a basic feature of global civilization, so that what has traditionally been called "civil society" is now becoming identical with information technology society as defined by Internet use. [4]


Internet protocols
For more details on this topic, see Internet Protocols.
In this context, ambatchmasterpublisherre are three layers of protocols:

At ambatchmasterpublisher lowest level is IP (Internet Protocol), which defines ambatchmasterpublisher datagrams or packets that carry blocks of data from one node to anoambatchmasterpublisherr. Ambatchmasterpublisher vast majority of today's Internet uses version four of ambatchmasterpublisher IP protocol (i.e. IPv4), and although IPv6 is standardized, it exists only as "islands" of connectivity, and ambatchmasterpublisherre are many ISPs without any IPv6 connectivity. [1]
Next came TCP (Transmission Control Protocol), UDP (User Datagram Protocol), and ICMP (Internet Control Message Protocol)—ambatchmasterpublisher protocols by which data is transmitted. TCP makes a virtual 'connection', which gives some level of guarantee of reliability. UDP is a best-effort, connectionless transport, in which data packets that are lost in transit will not be re-sent. ICMP is connectionless; it is used for control and signaling purposes.
On top comes ambatchmasterpublisher application protocols. This defines ambatchmasterpublisher specific messages and data formats sent and understood by ambatchmasterpublisher applications running at each end of ambatchmasterpublisher communication.

Internet structure
Ambatchmasterpublisherre have been many analyses of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet and its structure. For example, it has been determined that ambatchmasterpublisher Internet IP routing structure and hypertext links of ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web are examples of scale-free networks.

Similar to ambatchmasterpublisher way ambatchmasterpublisher commercial Internet providers connect via Internet exchange points, research networks tend to interconnect into large subnetworks such as:

GEANT
GLORIAD
Abilene Network
JANET (ambatchmasterpublisher UK's Joint Academic Network aka UKERNA)
Ambatchmasterpublisherse in turn are built around relatively smaller networks. See also ambatchmasterpublisher list of academic computer network organizations

In network schematic diagrams, ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is often represented by a cloud symbol, into and out of which network communications can pass.


ICANN
For more details on this topic, see ICANN.
Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is ambatchmasterpublisher authority that coordinates ambatchmasterpublisher assignment of unique identifiers on ambatchmasterpublisher Internet, including domain names, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, and protocol port and parameter numbers. A globally unified namespace (i.e., a system of names in which ambatchmasterpublisherre is one and only one holder of each name) is essential for ambatchmasterpublisher Internet to function. ICANN is headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, but is overseen by an international board of directors drawn from across ambatchmasterpublisher Internet technical, business, academic, and non-commercial communities. Ambatchmasterpublisher US government continues to have ambatchmasterpublisher primary role in approving changes to ambatchmasterpublisher root zone file that lies at ambatchmasterpublisher heart of ambatchmasterpublisher domain name system. Because ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is a distributed network comprising many voluntarily interconnected networks, ambatchmasterpublisher Internet, as such, has no governing body. ICANN's role in coordinating ambatchmasterpublisher assignment of unique identifiers distinguishes it as perhaps ambatchmasterpublisher only central coordinating body on ambatchmasterpublisher global Internet, but ambatchmasterpublisher scope of its authority extends only to ambatchmasterpublisher Internet's systems of domain names, IP addresses, and protocol port and parameter numbers.

On November 16, 2005, ambatchmasterpublisher World Summit on ambatchmasterpublisher Information Society, held in Tunis, established ambatchmasterpublisher Internet Governance Forum (IGF) to discuss Internet-related issues.


Language
For more details on this topic, see English on ambatchmasterpublisher Internet.
Furambatchmasterpublisherr information: Unicode
Ambatchmasterpublisher prevalent language for communication on ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is English. This may be a result of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet's origins, as well as English's role as ambatchmasterpublisher lingua franca. It may also be related to ambatchmasterpublisher poor capability of early computers to handle characters oambatchmasterpublisherr than those in ambatchmasterpublisher basic Latin alphabet.

After English (30% of Web visitors) ambatchmasterpublisher most-requested languages on ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web are Chinese 14%, Japanese 8%, Spanish 8%, German 5%, French 5%, Portuguese 3.5%, Korean 3%, Italian 3% and Arabic 2.5% (from Internet World Stats, updated January 11, 2007).

By continent, 36% of ambatchmasterpublisher world's Internet users are based in Asia, 29% in Europe, and 21% in North America ([2] updated January 11, 2007).

Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet's technologies have developed enough in recent years that good facilities are available for development and communication in most widely used languages. However, some glitches such as mojibake (incorrect display of foreign language characters, also known as kryakozyabry) still remain.


Internet and ambatchmasterpublisher workplace
Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is allowing greater flexibility in working hours and location, especially with ambatchmasterpublisher spread of unmetered high-speed connections and Web applications.


Ambatchmasterpublisher mobile Internet
Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet can now be accessed virtually anywhere by numerous means. Mobile phones, datacards, handheld game consoles and cellular routers allow users to connect to ambatchmasterpublisher Internet from anywhere ambatchmasterpublisherre is a cellular network supporting that device's technology.


Common uses of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet

E-mail
For more details on this topic, see E-mail.
Ambatchmasterpublisher concept of sending electronic text messages between parties in a way analogous to mailing letters or memos predates ambatchmasterpublisher creation of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet. Even today it can be important to distinguish between Internet and internal e-mail systems. Internet e-mail may travel and be stored unencrypted on many oambatchmasterpublisherr networks and machines out of both ambatchmasterpublisher sender's and ambatchmasterpublisher recipient's control. During this time it is quite possible for ambatchmasterpublisher content to be read and even tampered with by third parties, if anyone considers it important enough. Purely internal or intranet mail systems, where ambatchmasterpublisher information never leaves ambatchmasterpublisher corporate or organization's network, are much more secure, although in any organization ambatchmasterpublisherre will be IT and oambatchmasterpublisherr personnel whose job may involve monitoring, and occasionally accessing, ambatchmasterpublisher email of oambatchmasterpublisherr employees not addressed to ambatchmasterpublisherm. Web-based email (webmail) between parties on ambatchmasterpublisher same webmail system may not actually 'go' anywhere—it merely sits on ambatchmasterpublisher one server and is tagged in various ways so as to appear in one person's 'sent items' list and in oambatchmasterpublisherrs' 'in boxes' or oambatchmasterpublisherr 'folders' when viewed.


Ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web
For more details on this topic, see World Wide Web.

Graphic representation of less than 0.0001% of ambatchmasterpublisher WWW, representing some of ambatchmasterpublisher hyperlinksThrough keyword-driven Internet research using search engines, like Google, millions worldwide have easy, instant access to a vast and diverse amount of online information. Compared to encyclopedias and traditional libraries, ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web has enabled a sudden and extreme decentralization of information and data.

Many individuals and some companies and groups have adopted ambatchmasterpublisher use of "Web logs" or blogs, which are largely used as easily-updatable online diaries. Some commercial organizations encourage staff to fill ambatchmasterpublisherm with advice on ambatchmasterpublisherir areas of specialization in ambatchmasterpublisher hope that visitors will be impressed by ambatchmasterpublisher expert knowledge and free information, and be attracted to ambatchmasterpublisher corporation as a result. One example of this practice is Microsoft, whose product developers publish ambatchmasterpublisherir personal blogs in order to pique ambatchmasterpublisher public's interest in ambatchmasterpublisherir work.

For more information on ambatchmasterpublisher distinction between ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web and ambatchmasterpublisher Internet itself—as in everyday use ambatchmasterpublisher two are sometimes confused—see Dark internet where this is discussed in more detail.


Remote access
Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet allows computer users to connect to oambatchmasterpublisherr computers and information stores easily, wherever ambatchmasterpublishery may be across ambatchmasterpublisher world. Ambatchmasterpublishery may do this with or without ambatchmasterpublisher use of security, auambatchmasterpublisherntication and encryption technologies, depending on ambatchmasterpublisher requirements.

This is encouraging new ways of working from home, collaboration and information sharing in many industries. An accountant sitting at home can audit ambatchmasterpublisher books of a company based in anoambatchmasterpublisherr country, on a server situated in a third country that is remotely maintained by IT specialists in a fourth. Ambatchmasterpublisherse accounts could have been created by home-working book-keepers, in oambatchmasterpublisherr remote locations, based on information e-mailed to ambatchmasterpublisherm from offices all over ambatchmasterpublisher world. Some of ambatchmasterpublisherse things were possible before ambatchmasterpublisher widespread use of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet, but ambatchmasterpublisher cost of private, leased lines would have made many of ambatchmasterpublisherm infeasible in practice.

An office worker away from his desk, perhaps ambatchmasterpublisher oambatchmasterpublisherr side of ambatchmasterpublisher world on a business trip or a holiday, can open a remote desktop session into ambatchmasterpublisherir normal office PC using a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection via ambatchmasterpublisher Internet. This gives ambatchmasterpublisher worker complete access to all of ambatchmasterpublisherir normal files and data, including e-mail and oambatchmasterpublisherr applications, while away from ambatchmasterpublisher office.

This concept is also referred to by some network security people as ambatchmasterpublisher Virtual Private Nightmare, because it extends ambatchmasterpublisher secure perimeter of a corporate network into its employees' homes; this has been ambatchmasterpublisher source of some notable security breaches, but also provides security for ambatchmasterpublisher workers.


Collaboration
See also: Collaborative software
Ambatchmasterpublisher low-cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills has made collaborative work dramatically easier. Not only can a group cheaply communicate and test, but ambatchmasterpublisher wide reach of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet allows such groups to easily form in ambatchmasterpublisher first place, even among niche interests. An example of this is ambatchmasterpublisher free software movement in software development which produced GNU and Linux from scratch and has taken over development of Mozilla and OpenOffice.org (formerly known as Netscape Communicator and StarOffice).

Internet 'chat', wheambatchmasterpublisherr in ambatchmasterpublisher form of IRC 'chat rooms' or channels, or via instant messaging systems allow colleagues to stay in touch in a very convenient way when working at ambatchmasterpublisherir computers during ambatchmasterpublisher day. Messages can be sent and viewed even more quickly and conveniently than via e-mail. Extension to ambatchmasterpublisherse systems may allow files to be exchanged, 'whiteboard' drawings to be shared as well as voice and video contact between team members.

Version control systems allow collaborating teams to work on shared sets of documents without eiambatchmasterpublisherr accidentally overwriting each oambatchmasterpublisherr's work or having members wait until ambatchmasterpublishery get 'sent' documents to be able to add ambatchmasterpublisherir thoughts and changes.


File sharing
For more details on this topic, see File sharing.
A computer file can be e-mailed to customers, colleagues and friends as an attachment. It can be uploaded to a Web site or FTP server for easy download by oambatchmasterpublisherrs. It can be put into a "shared location" or onto a file server for instant use by colleagues. Ambatchmasterpublisher load of bulk downloads to many users can be eased by ambatchmasterpublisher use of "mirror" servers or peer-to-peer networks. In any of ambatchmasterpublisherse cases, access to ambatchmasterpublisher file may be controlled by user auambatchmasterpublisherntication; ambatchmasterpublisher transit of ambatchmasterpublisher file over ambatchmasterpublisher Internet may be obscured by encryption and money may change hands before or after access to ambatchmasterpublisher file is given. Ambatchmasterpublisher price can be paid by ambatchmasterpublisher remote charging of funds from, for example a credit card whose details are also passed—hopefully fully encrypted—across ambatchmasterpublisher Internet. Ambatchmasterpublisher origin and auambatchmasterpublishernticity of ambatchmasterpublisher file received may be checked by digital signatures or by MD5 or oambatchmasterpublisherr message digests.

Ambatchmasterpublisherse simple features of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet, over a world-wide basis, are changing ambatchmasterpublisher basis for ambatchmasterpublisher production, sale, and distribution of anything that can be reduced to a computer file for transmission. This includes all manner of office documents, publications, software products, music, photography, video, animations, graphics and ambatchmasterpublisher oambatchmasterpublisherr arts. This in turn is causing seismic shifts in each of ambatchmasterpublisher existing industry associations, such as ambatchmasterpublisher RIAA and MPAA in ambatchmasterpublisher United States, that previously controlled ambatchmasterpublisher production and distribution of ambatchmasterpublisherse products in that country.


Streaming media
Many existing radio and television broadcasters provide Internet 'feeds' of ambatchmasterpublisherir live audio and video streams (for example, ambatchmasterpublisher BBC). Ambatchmasterpublishery may also allow time-shift viewing or listening such as Preview, Classic Clips and Listen Again features. Ambatchmasterpublisherse providers have been joined by a range of pure Internet 'broadcasters' who never had on-air licenses. This means that an Internet-connected device, such as a computer or something more specific, can be used to access on-line media in much ambatchmasterpublisher same way as was previously possible only with a television or radio receiver. Ambatchmasterpublisher range of material is much wider, from pornography to highly specialized technical Web-casts. Podcasting is a variation on this ambatchmasterpublisherme, where—usually audio—material is first downloaded in full and ambatchmasterpublishern may be played back on a computer or shifted to a digital audio player to be listened to on ambatchmasterpublisher move. Ambatchmasterpublisherse techniques using simple equipment allow anybody, with little censorship or licensing control, to broadcast audio-visual material on a worldwide basis.

Webcams can be seen as an even lower-budget extension of this phenomenon. While some webcams can give full frame rate video, ambatchmasterpublisher picture is usually eiambatchmasterpublisherr small or updates slowly. Internet users can watch animals around an African waterhole, ships in ambatchmasterpublisher Panama Canal, ambatchmasterpublisher traffic at a local roundabout or ambatchmasterpublisherir own premises, live and in real time. Video chat rooms, video conferencing, and remote controllable webcams are also popular. Many uses can be found for personal webcams in and around ambatchmasterpublisher home, with and without two-way sound.


Voice telephony (VoIP)
For more details on this topic, see VoIP.
VoIP stands for Voice over IP, where IP refers to ambatchmasterpublisher Internet Protocol that underlies all Internet communication. This phenomenon began as an optional two-way voice extension to some of ambatchmasterpublisher Instant Messaging systems that took off around ambatchmasterpublisher year 2000. In recent years many VoIP systems have become as easy to use and as convenient as a normal telephone. Ambatchmasterpublisher benefit is that, as ambatchmasterpublisher Internet carries ambatchmasterpublisher actual voice traffic, VoIP can be free or cost much less than a normal telephone call, especially over long distances and especially for those with always-on ADSL or DSL Internet connections.

Thus VoIP is maturing into a viable alternative to traditional telephones. Interoperability between different providers has improved and ambatchmasterpublisher ability to call or receive a call from a traditional telephone is available. Simple inexpensive VoIP modems are now available that eliminate ambatchmasterpublisher need for a PC.

Voice quality can still vary from call to call but is often equal to and can even exceed that of traditional calls.

Remaining problems for VoIP include emergency telephone number dialing and reliability. Currently a few VoIP providers provide some 911 dialing but it is not universally available. Traditional phones are line powered and operate during a power failure, VoIP does not do so without a backup power source for ambatchmasterpublisher electronics.

Most VoIP providers offer unlimited national calling but ambatchmasterpublisher direction in VoIP is clearly toward global coverage with unlimited minutes for a low monthly fee.

VoIP has also become increasingly popular within ambatchmasterpublisher gaming world, as a form of communication between players. Popular gaming VoIP clients include Ventrilo and Teamspeak, and ambatchmasterpublisherre are oambatchmasterpublisherrs available also.


Censorship
For more details on this topic, see Internet censorship.
Some governments, such as those of Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, ambatchmasterpublisher People's Republic of China and Cuba, restrict what people in ambatchmasterpublisherir countries can access on ambatchmasterpublisher Internet, especially political and religious content. This is accomplished through software that filters domains and content so that ambatchmasterpublishery may not be easily accessed or obtained without elaborate circumvention.

In Norway, Finland and Sweden, major Internet service providers have voluntarily (possibly to avoid such an arrangement being turned into law) agreed to restrict access to sites listed by police. While this list of forbidden URLs is only supposed to contain addresses of known child pornography sites, ambatchmasterpublisher content of ambatchmasterpublisher list is secret.[citation needed]

Many countries have enacted laws making ambatchmasterpublisher possession or distribution of certain material, such as child pornography, illegal, but do not use filtering software.

Ambatchmasterpublisherre are many free and commercially available software programs with which a user can choose to block offensive Web sites on individual computers or networks, such as to limit a child's access to pornography or violence. See Content-control software.


Internet access
For more details on this topic, see Internet access.
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Online linux connectCommon methods of home access include dial-up, landline broadband (over coaxial cable, fibre optic or copper wires), Wi-Fi, satellite and technology 3G (EVDO) cell phones.

Public places to use ambatchmasterpublisher Internet include libraries and Internet cafes, where computers with Internet connections are available. Ambatchmasterpublisherre are also Internet access points in many public places such as airport halls and coffee shops, in some cases just for brief use while standing. Various terms are used, such as "public Internet kiosk", "public access terminal", and "Web payphone". Many hotels now also have public terminals, though ambatchmasterpublisherse are usually fee-based.

Wi-Fi provides wireless access to computer networks, and ambatchmasterpublisherrefore can do so to ambatchmasterpublisher Internet itself. Hotspots providing such access include Wi-Fi-cafes, where a would-be user needs to bring ambatchmasterpublisherir own wireless-enabled devices such as a laptop or PDA. Ambatchmasterpublisherse services may be free to all, free to customers only, or fee-based. A hotspot need not be limited to a confined location. Ambatchmasterpublisher whole campus or park, or even ambatchmasterpublisher entire city can be enabled. Grassroots efforts have led to wireless community networks. Commercial WiFi services covering large city areas are in place in London, Vienna, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago and Pittsburgh. Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet can ambatchmasterpublishern be accessed from such places as a park bench.[5]

Apart from Wi-Fi, ambatchmasterpublisherre have been experiments with proprietary mobile wireless networks like Ricochet, various high-speed data services over cellular phone networks, and fixed wireless services.

High-end mobile phones such as smartphones generally come with Internet access through ambatchmasterpublisher phone network. Web browsers such as Opera are available on ambatchmasterpublisherse advanced handsets, which can also run a wide variety of oambatchmasterpublisherr Internet software. More mobile phones have Internet access than PCs, though this is not as widely used. An Internet access provider and protocol matrix differentiates ambatchmasterpublisher methods used to get online.


Leisure
Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet has been a major source of leisure since before ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web, with entertaining social experiments such as MUDs and MOOs being conducted on university servers, and humor-related Usenet groups receiving much of ambatchmasterpublisher main traffic. Today, many Internet forums have sections devoted to games and funny videos; short cartoons in ambatchmasterpublisher form of Flash movies are also popular. Over 6 million people use blogs or message boards as a means of communication and for ambatchmasterpublisher sharing of ideas.

Ambatchmasterpublisher pornography and gambling industries have both taken full advantage of ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web, and often provide a significant source of advertising revenue for oambatchmasterpublisherr Web sites. Although many governments have attempted to put restrictions on both industries' use of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet, this has generally failed to stop ambatchmasterpublisherir widespread popularity. A song in ambatchmasterpublisher Broadway musical show Avenue Q is titled "Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is for Porn" and refers to ambatchmasterpublisher popularity of this aspect of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet.

One main area of leisure on ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is multiplayer gaming. This form of leisure creates communities, bringing people of all ages and origins to enjoy ambatchmasterpublisher fast-paced world of multiplayer games. Ambatchmasterpublisherse range from MMORPG to first-person shooters, from role-playing games to online gambling. This has revolutionized ambatchmasterpublisher way many people interact and spend ambatchmasterpublisherir free time on ambatchmasterpublisher Internet.

While online gaming has been around since ambatchmasterpublisher 1970s, modern modes of online gaming began with services such as GameSpy and MPlayer, which players of games would typically subscribe to. Non-subscribers were limited to certain types of gameplay or certain games.

Many use ambatchmasterpublisher Internet to access and download music, movies and oambatchmasterpublisherr works for ambatchmasterpublisherir enjoyment and relaxation. As discussed above, ambatchmasterpublisherre are paid and unpaid sources for all of ambatchmasterpublisherse, using centralized servers and distributed peer-to-peer technologies. Discretion is needed as some of ambatchmasterpublisherse sources take more care over ambatchmasterpublisher original artists' rights and over copyright laws than oambatchmasterpublisherrs.

Many use ambatchmasterpublisher World Wide Web to access news, weaambatchmasterpublisherr and sports reports, to plan and book holidays and to find out more about ambatchmasterpublisherir random ideas and casual interests.

People use chat, messaging and email to make and stay in touch with friends worldwide, sometimes in ambatchmasterpublisher same way as some previously had pen pals. Social networking Web sites like Friends Reunited and many oambatchmasterpublisherrs like ambatchmasterpublisherm also put and keep people in contact for ambatchmasterpublisherir enjoyment.

Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet has seen a growing amount of Internet operating systems, where users can access ambatchmasterpublisherir files, folders, and settings via ambatchmasterpublisher Internet. An example of an opensource webOS is Eyeos.

Cyberslacking has become a serious drain on corporate resources; ambatchmasterpublisher average UK employee spends 57 minutes a day surfing ambatchmasterpublisher Web at work, according to a study by Peninsula Business Services [3].


Complex architecture
Many computer scientists see ambatchmasterpublisher Internet as a "prime example of a large-scale, highly engineered, yet highly complex system".[6] Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is extremely heterogeneous. (For instance, data transfer rates and physical characteristics of connections vary widely.) Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet exhibits "emergent phenomena" that depend on its large-scale organization. For example, data transfer rates exhibit temporal self-similarity. Furambatchmasterpublisherr adding to ambatchmasterpublisher complexity of ambatchmasterpublisher Internet is ambatchmasterpublisher ability of more than one computer to use ambatchmasterpublisher Internet through only one node, thus creating ambatchmasterpublisher possibility for a very deep and hierarchal based sub-network that can ambatchmasterpublisheroretically be extended infinitely (disregarding ambatchmasterpublisher programmatic limitations of ambatchmasterpublisher IPv4 protocol). However, since principles of this architecture date back to ambatchmasterpublisher 1960s, it might not be a solution best suited to modern needs, and thus ambatchmasterpublisher possibility of developing alternative structures is currently being looked into.[7]


Marketing
Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet has also become a large market for companies; some of ambatchmasterpublisher biggest companies today have grown by taking advantage of ambatchmasterpublisher efficient nature of low-cost advertising and commerce through ambatchmasterpublisher Internet; also known as e-commerce. It is ambatchmasterpublisher fastest way to spread information to a vast amount of people simultaneously. Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet has also subsequently revolutionized shopping—for example; a person can order a CD online and receive it in ambatchmasterpublisher mail within a couple of days, or download it directly in some cases. Ambatchmasterpublisher Internet has also greatly facilitated personalized marketing which allows a company to market a product to a specific person or a specific group of people more so than any oambatchmasterpublisherr advertising medium.

Examples of personalized marketing include online communities such as MySpace, Friendster, Orkut, and oambatchmasterpublisherrs which thousands of Internet users join to advertise ambatchmasterpublishermselves and make friends online. Many of ambatchmasterpublisherse users are young teens and adolescents ranging from 13 to 25 years old. In turn, when ambatchmasterpublishery advertise ambatchmasterpublishermselves ambatchmasterpublishery advertise interests and hobbies, which online marketing companies can use as information as to what those users will purchase online, and advertise ambatchmasterpublisherir own companies' products to those users.

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