The Influence of the Internet on Modern Society.

?The crop of the meshing on modern troupe. CSC 1015 By Ryan antique 091811594 Introduction This essay focuses on the impact that the interent has had on modern companionship. I will give a brief history of the network, talk round its origins and the key developments that excite occured up until straight. Then look at how the cyberspace has changed society so far, including how it has changed fond interactions, e-commerce and jobs. Also discussing the favors and disadvatages of the interent and if we be better of with the internet, how i think the internet will develop and finally drawing my sustain someoneal culture.History of the internet Before the invention of practical computers, peck had visioned concepts of the internet Mountbatten, (1946 cited in Naughton,2000) thought that Morse operators would be replaced by autoloading(prenominal) apparatus . . . a single unified world-wide network of stations would be set up over which messages would be passed automati cally. Mountbattens theory is simular to the function of e-mails. The marge father of the internet has been thrown abouut, this is because so legion(predicate) battalion hit contributed to the development of the internet three names always occur Vannevar Bush, Norbert hotdog and J.C. R Licklider. My personal opinion is that it was Paul Baran, this is because of his work on parcel switched networks Naughton, (2000) The core of Barans algorithm was a constantly updated table containg data slightly how umpteen hops were inevitable for a message to come to e rattling some other node in the system. This is the idea of packet switching. The first form of the frequent internet was developed by CERN and invented by Tim Berners-lee he was the first person to decease from a HTTP client to a server via the internet.Since the internet has draw avaliable it has had millions of users, the internet have expanded considerablely from macrocosm able to communicate from one computer t o another to having television channels broadcasted live. How the internet has changed society so far. Society has been able to become socially active online with social networking sites much(prenominal) as facebook, myspace and Instant messaging services, i think the reason this has become popular is because these websites and programs ar free and the ease of access, allowing people anyplace to talk to anyone in the world providing they have internet access.High road stores, have developed websites to advertise what they have instore online, heavy(p) the user the abilty to taint the product online and have it delivered to their house without having to go to the high street, i cop this as a great advantage to people who live in remote locations, do not have mobile transport or are unable to travel, having an online store appeals to alot more people and gives the comapny a big market.The internet has created many jobs, with the development of servers people are needed to mod erate them, well as website developers and people needed to develop new technologies for the internet. Banks now allow customers to monitor their accounts online,6 49% of internet users access internet banking. giving them more control over their account and they potful check themselves. I personally think that this is a bad idea because of the risk of hoax and people decent paranoid about their money, on the other establish account holders do-nothing also keep track of their finances case illegal legal proceeding are taking place.Thanks to the internet employees can work from anywhere, saving office space and capital costs on bulidings, i think that this has changed alot of workplace ethics, social workplace interaction has changed because employees are not working together in one place, although if employees are beaming to work from home they may have higher job satisfaction. The benefits of the internet In the following paragraph i will discuss the advantage of the intern et in modern day society. The interent has created new was of communion, such s instant messaging and video confencing but i think that the biggest influence is e-mail 1The use of e-mail is having a great impact on society. E-mail has changed parley that now ancestryes use it. 1 E-mail is a very fast way to work that reflects very well the nature of business today. because of its efficiency, cost and ease of use e-mail has become a favoured order of communication. Business has thived on the internet, internet business are able to reach a wider market 2Through the internet, a business of any surface can compete in the global marketplace.In fact, on the internet, the sizing of an organizations operation makes little difference because the internet is an open environment. because anyone has access to the internet businesses can reach anyone also giving the customer a wider woof of products. The internet has also watch overn new markets for jobs appear 3over the last ecstasy or so the Internet has created 1. 2 million jobs, many pay higher salaries than average. because of the new developments there are more people needed to perform research maintain and manage these areas of the internet.The dangers of the internet. In this paragraph i will be looking at the disadvantages of the internet. There are dangers of online communication such as social networks where users can lie about who they are 4Megan thought she was being abused by 16-year-old Josh Evans, she was actually talking to Lori Drew, the 49-year-old mother of one of her former friends who, it is alleged, had set up a off-key profile to taunt Megan. in social networking sites it is very easy for people to lie about who they are and trick other people.Businesses using online transactions have become victim to cyber-crime, there are many forms of cyber-crime, hacking involves gaining study without the users permission and misusing it, Cyber-crime is a huge part crime in todays society and is still growing 5Online theft costs $1 trillion a year, the number of attacks is rising sharply and too many people do not know how to protect themselves because many businesses dont know how to protect themselves are being preyed on by hackers.Since e-mails have become mainstream less(prenominal) garner have been sent 6 The impact of the internet and other communication technologies, such as mobile phones, has been so great that it has actually severed the fall in between the postal market and economic growth. this decline in the postal market may be 6 the rapid increase of internet access, with 70% of homes in the UK now online. and also 6 87% of internet users send e-mails. because so many people have access to the internet and e-mails post is becoming redundant.If the benefits outways the dangers In this paragraph I will draw a conclusion on whether the benefits of the internet outway the dangers. Businesses have hugely benefitted from the internet with the access to a wider market, but a major disadvantage is cyber-crime one crime in specific fraud. I beleive the advantage outways the disadvantage because there are many ways businesses can protect themselves against fraud with software and training.Social networks have a huge advantage of being able to communicate with vast amounts of people from anywhere at any time, but people many younger internet users are targeted and negatively influenced over these sites, these influences can be stopped if the correct action can be taken a careful use of these sites. There have been so many jobs created by the internet because of all the new markets being created, aswell as all of these jobs being created many jobs have been lost 655,000 jobs lost since 2002. . There have been many more jobs created than lost so far so i see the internet being an advantage. Summary The internet has vastly changed society finished the many different areas that i have looked at, communication has greatly benefitted by having fast , easy and cheap communication, businesses have been able to reach a large market and customers can choose from a wider range of products, more skilful jobs have been created.The internet has also created negative aspects such as communication and businesses have xperienced crime and online bullying, also many jobs have been lost because less people are using some services that the internet can now provide. My own personal experience of the internet has been of all of the areas discussed and i have always had good experiences. In conclusion the internet has created so many new jobs and markets rather than taken them away, as 670% of homes in the UK now online. it has affect a huge amount of the UK society and had a positive affect or people wouldnt use it.