w on the Internet; they use it to access worldwide resources and to communicate with constituents. They, like the Internet’s traditional academic users, and like its newer business users (who are now in the majority), don’t want to do without this global information utility and online community. The Internet has become popular in the press recently, as the public discovers the utility of this network and the value of its community. Many Internet users wouldn’t take a job that did not include Internet access, and many employers seek employees familiar with the Internet. Why do all these people use the Internet?
1. Communications
The most popular use of the Internet is to exchange messages among people with electronic mail. You can communicate with tens of millions of people worldwide, with the clarity of a letter and much of the immediacy of the telephone, yet without having to stamp an envelope or play telephone tag. We write a lot of articles, and we can tell you the difference between a publication that accepts submissions by electronic mail and one that doesn’t is often the difference between a few ninths to publication and a year to publication; this is an example of the degree to which online communications can increase efficiency[1]. Also, a week’s worth of business paper correspondence can be written, sent, and delivered in a day with electronic mail, without retyping, printing, stamps, express mail fees, or waiting a week for delivery. Event within a department, a无忧论文 【http://www.uklunwen.com】mong workers in the same building, electronic mail is quicker, cheaper, and more convenient than paper memos, and less disturbing to productive work than telephone calls.
With electronic mailing lists, you can send a message to dozens or thousands of people at the same time, without photocopying memos or making multiple fax telephone calls. Thousands of such mailing lists discuss subjects ranging from genealogy to investment in petroleum companies. Some mailing lists carry online newsletters and journals. Some of the journals are referred, and are just as good as traditional academic paper journals, but faster. Mailing lists are distributed from various parts of the Matrix, but many of the most interesting and largest mailing lists are distributed from the Internet.
For event larger discussions, USENET news permits tens or hundreds of thousands of participants, providing true many-to-many conferencing, a service that does not exist in traditional media[2]. This service is like four thousand newspapers consisting entirely of columnists transmitter as well as a receiver, or like a meeting of two million people where everyone can not only speak at once, but can also be heard.
2. Resource Sharing
Over the Internet you can retrieve software, essays, data, and programs from thousands of distribution points across the world. To many companies, the free software available over the Internet is alone worth the cost of connection. Many companies provide free software over the Inte |
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