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According to electronic source found, Internet is “a network of networks, joining many government, university and private computers together and providing an infrastructure for the use of E-mail, bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext documents, databases and other computational resources (William Slater III 1996)”. ... The development of Internet especially World Wide Web (WWW) has changed very much the way we live nowadays. There are lots of numerical data showing the dramatically growth of Internet hosts. Though, in my opinion, it doesn’t indicate the disappearance of broadcast media, as every different media has its own value of existence. ... But it is impossible to see the disappearance of broadcast media due to the rapid growth in Internet.
In the narration of the development of Internet, Flew (2002: 12-13) stated that, there are 3 historical important elements exist throughout the development timeline of Internet. They are important and very much related to the reason why Internet grows fast. ... After that in 1974, an importance came into the history of Internet, which is the appearance of TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) that proposed by Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf. ... Later until 1990s, the invention of WWW has finally made the Internet what we are using today (Flew 2002: 12-13).
However, there are 4 features of WWW, as discussed by Flew (2002), had caused the most significant and crucial result of growth in Internet. ... With these 4 useful and vital features of WWW, that make Internet become so user-friendly, multi-media and multi-purposed, and also the development of TCP/IP and packet switching in the early time, the Internet has thus become so worldwide and the fastest growing medium as compared to others broadcast media like television and radio, and it is still having a continuously growth in all over the world. Of course, besides that, the way in which people do business, education, entertainment, information retrieval and even communication nowadays, has explained the rapid growth in internet. For majority of us, Internet has become part of our life. We go online when we need information or entertainment, we chat with friends through Internet, and some people even go online for education purpose, getting a degree through online classes that provided by particular university or college.
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