Internet access

innovations in every aspect and field of life; whether it is engineering, agriculture, manufacturing, etc. But how did the world come to be defined entirely by technology? When did this happen? A key constituent and catalyst of technology is the internet. This commonly used tool that came into being just 25 years ago has essentially revolutionized our lives as human beings. It has brought with it a new age; the digital age, whereby how we live, work, and play has been affected to great extents.…

connection can ensue. For example, when buying locks to keep homes or businesses safe there is a different key for every lock. This means like keys; the VPN establishes a secure connection that does not allow for intrusions to occur by using the Internet (Stewart 19). The remote connection is established by using a tunneling protocol which adds security by encrypting data. Encrypting data is vital for a network as many hackers are seeking to find the easiest way to steal data. If data is…

online media, such as social networking sites on young adolescent lives. Using her own research and that of others, Pujazon-Zazik shapes the idea that increased access to the Internet has greatly expanded options available to adolescents for interacting with their peers and, potentially strangers. According to data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, nine in ten social networking teens say they use Social Networking Sites (SNS) to stay in touch with friends they see frequently,…

addition, with the internet becoming publicly available starting 1991, the debate of this topic had significantly risen over time. Following that time period, websites such as AOL, Hotmail, or Netscape for emails and Yahoo, Lycos, or AltaVista for search were rising through the internet until the foundation of Google in 1998 which becoming the dominant search website today. With the rise of these websites, the debate over the effects that the internet could have on people…

don’t mind these web filters but many do. Me personally I believe they are too restrictive, and that the school should change some things. If the web filters at school were not so strict students would be able to have more fun. Like being able to access YouTube or Pandora. This way you would be able to listen to music and can still get more work done. And by letting us go on these websites we would not want to talk as much and would be able to finish more work. There are also some websites that…

Video Library Using the internet can be very interesting and very rewarding. Upon using the internet one may go about it in various ways. You can search for many things and learn all the information that you want to about any subject. If one choose to keep track of useful information the may compile a video library for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhT3co2qNAA Ushahidi This is a very good video to show the importance of the platform Ushahidi. It to understand not…

Does the internet have a positive effect on our happiness? Today, the Internet plays a big role in our society. People enjoy the fact that they can have so much information from a computer or a phone, and it is so easy and simple to access. According to research that the average adult spends twenty hours per week on the internet. It is a big part in our lives, without it we would not be able to do many things that we do today. The internet is used so much for many good reasons; communicating,…

through the Internet. This is because information retrieved from the Internet is pretty precise and affordable (Johnson et al., 2004). Not only to look…

or perhaps you read the newspaper? I can admit that when I'm taking my breaks, I skim through the internet and that is where most of my news comes from. I have noticed that many of us do this, and it seems like social media has become the hot spot for people all around the world. It can be hard to determine credibility when you are getting your information on the internet, and people use the internet to voice their opinions and…

conducted by Lenheart, he found that “about one third of all teenagers who use the internet say they have been targets of a range of annoying and menacing online activities- such as receiving threatening messages; having an embarrassing picture posted without permission; or having rumors about them spread online” (Lenheart). Teenagers who become targets of bullying deal with emotional distress and mental issues. The internet is full of inappropriate conduct and illegal behavior; many students…