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people, communication and sharing knowledge. Indeed, in the last decade or so,
the Net has revolutionized the way we access information, stay in touch, shop ...
the list goes on.
2.
On a more specific level, the Internet is different things to different users, but
two activities dominate most people’s experience of it: the transfer of email and
browsing the World Wide Web.
Many long-time Net users - and almost all journalists - don't know the
difference between the internet and the Web. The World Wide Web - or simply
the Web - is the popular face of the Internet, taking the form of billions of websites,
each comprising one or more webpages. In practice, browsing the Web works a bit
like flicking through a huge magazine, using your mouse to click on links (or
"hyperlinks") between pages.
3.
No one actually "runs" the entire Internet but there are several major players
who exert a great deal of influence. On the theoretical and administrative levels
there is ICANN, which coordinates domain names (also called Web addresses);
the Internet Society, which, among other things, acts as a clearing house for
technical standards; and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which mulls over
the Web's future. You are unlikely to encounter any of these groups directly.
4.
The legal level is governed by local authorities. What's OK in one territory
may be an offence in another. That means if you break a local law, you could
be prosecuted - irrespective of whether you're accessing something that's legal
at the source. So just because you can download a pirated copy of PhotoShop from
a Vietnamese Web server doesn't make you immune to copyright laws at home.
And while you might have the freedom to express your views about a foreign
government, nationals of that state may not be so free to read it.
5.
The Internet was first conceived a few decades ago as a network for the
American Defense Department, its primary purpose being to act as a nuclear-
attack-resistant method of exchanging scientific information and intelligence. In
the 1970s and 1980s several other networks, such as the National Science
Foundation Network (NSFNET), jumped on board, linking the Net to research
agencies and universities.
6.
It’s impossible to give an accurate figure, but surveys estimate that somewhere
between 750 million and one billion people use the Net - that's around one in seven
people worldwide. Around ninety percent of these are split roughly equally between
Europe, USA/Canada and Asia/Pacific. Of course, far fewer people are regular
users.
A. Advertising suits and recruitment agencies use the term new media mainly to
differentiate between the old media world – print, radio, television and so on – and
new media such as electronic and digital communication methods, including the
Internet, CD-ROMs.
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