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accepted medium for all sort of customer relations such as advertising, brand building, and online sales and services.
Its original spirit of cooperation and freedom have, to a great extent, survived this explosive transformation with the
result that the vast majority of information available on the Internet is free of charge.
-The best known asepcts of the Internet are the WorldWideWeb and ElectronicMail
. Other facilities include UseNet, the global 'news' service (largely [Deprecated] in favour of web based forums and [MailingList]s, [IRC], FileSharing, etc. Anything you can do on a network, you can do (albeit probably slower) on the InterNet.
+The best known asepcts of the Internet are the WorldWideWeb and [Email]
. Other facilities include UseNet, the global 'news' service (largely [Deprecated] in favour of web based forums and [MailingList]s, [IRC], FileSharing, etc. Anything you can do on a network, you can do (albeit probably slower) on the InterNet.
The internet runs on the [TCP]/[IP] protocol, although there are gateways onto it for other networking [Protocol]s. In order to convert [IP] addresses to names, it offers the [DNS].
The NetworkEffect ensures that the InterNet is singular. If another internet were built of any considerable size, the benifits of connecting the two internets would grow extreme. Since internets are inherently distributed, sooner or later a NetworkAdministrator would set up a computer so it could access both. For the two internets to be considered a single network only a single, local connection needs to be made, even if it cannot be seen/accessed from the overwhelming majority of either network.
