THE USE OF THE INTERNET

The Use Of The Internet

The Use Of The Internet

Introduction

Internet in 2000's A Look at the Web Development World Ahead by Charlie Morris. As we begin a new millennium, a new era in Web development is also beginning. Making predictions is dangerous in this business, but it seems clear that important changes in the way we use and design Web sites are underway. Web developers who want to stay in business had better take heed of these trends, and start boning up on the new technologies. Head for the woodshed today, or the unemployment office tomorrow!

The rise of the Internet in the Middle East

While the Internet was slow to arrive in the region in the 1990s, its development has been rapid: The number of Internet users in MENA grew from 16.0 million in 2003 to 85.5 million in 2008. Their share of the world's total users rose from 2.0% to 5.2% over the same period; Iran leads the region with 41.1 million Internet users as of 2008. Egypt came second in the same year with 12.6 million. When examined relative to population size, the widest access to the Internet was found again in Iran (57.0 users per 100 inhabitants), followed by the United Arab Emirates (56.4 users per 100 inhabitants);

Today we have the opportunity to reach any part of the world and any information we can possibly imagine all at our fingertips. The creation of the Internet was an amazing and an arduous process by a collaboration of many different people and companies. Many innovative ideas have served as the stepping stone which now rests as a gigantic pyramid of the Internet, which has yet to have reached its pinnacle. (Baran, 2006, 65-89)

One could argue that the creation of the Internet was made in part by the Sputnik scare in the early 19601s. Fears that were aroused made the military take guard and build up technological forces. The United States thought that it would need a networking system without an obvious center to attack so that it could survive a nuclear war. Thus the Internet assumed its identity in 1969 by the Advanced Research Projects Agency which became known as ARPANET. The ARPANET was a system of nodes that were able to send information to one another. These nodes allowed one computer to receive information from another computer. (Castells, M. 2001, 76-89)

September 3, 2004 - The worldwide number of Internet users will reach nearly 935 million in 2004 and will top 1 billion in mid 2005. The U.S. continues to lead with over 185M Internet users forecasted for year-end 2004. There is little Internet user growth in the developed countries, but in the next five years many Internet users will be supplementing PC Internet usage with Smartphone and mobile device Internet usage. Internet usage is growing strongly in China, which surpassed Japan for second place in 2003. The growth of Internet users will continue in the developing countries for another ...