Evaluation:
Published: 01.01.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Internet Inventions', 1.
  • Essays 'Internet Inventions', 2.
Extract

Several inventions have changed the way people communicate with each other. From the old fashioned telegraph to today's modern electronic forms of communicating, people have
beencreating easier ways to correspond. Electronic communicati on, such as e-mail and other internet offerings, have created a cheap and incredibly fast communications system which is
gaining steady popularity.
E-mail is basically information, usually in letter form,addressed to a destination on the interne t.
The internet is aninternational web of interconnected networks--in essence, anetwork of networks; these consist of government, education, and business networks. Software on these
networks between the source and destination networks 'read' the addre sses on packets and forward them toward their destinations. E-mail is a very fas t and efficient way of sending
information to any internet location. …

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