The mankind knows not so many inventions which cardinally influenced development of history. The first, it, naturally, fire domestication, the second - the invention of a wheel, about the rest it is possible to argue, but opening of the Internet so influenced development of humanity that the category Homo sapiens was complemented with a concept the Internet user.
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1. Originally the Internet was developed as a means of exchanging by information, mainly in strategic objectives. Information function of the Internet remains priority till their time, but it is not only. With penetration of the Internet into life of most of the population of the planet, not only the structure of society, but also a possibility of satisfaction of many requirements changed.
2. The Internet as the instrument of training began to be used not so long ago, but today the rare school student can perform a task, without resorting to the help of search engines. And matter not only in "ready homeworks". The Internet is used for drawing up papers, reports, messages. At the same time functions of library as information source strongly lose on degree of efficiency of processing of material.
3. Internet as means of communication. Numerous social networks became replacement to real communication. And, not only the audience which thanks to the Internet does not know geographical boundaries changed. The quality of communication changed. The person suffering from complexes can feel absolutely comfortably, communicating with virtual acquaintances and friends. Some virtual acquaintances can last for years and the people never seeing each other in real know about the interlocutor more, than real acquaintances and relatives. Virtual communication – an optimum way to brighten up loneliness. The Internet stopped existence of telegraph and finishes existence of stationary phones. In line mobile communication.
4. Internet trade – one of the factors which are releasing time and bringing together the consumer with vendor and the seller. More and more buyers prefer not to be limited to the range offered by local outlets, and to look for necessary goods on the most favorable conditions. The possibility of the buyer to select among numerous similar offers stimulates vendor to improve quality of products to remain competitive in the market.
5. The Internet cardinally changed show business. An opportunity to watch any movie, sometimes even prior to its official presentation, the movie from archives, the telecast in the retrospective mode – all this changed structure of leisure time. As well as the possibility of reading new products of literature of online made available to numerous readers earlier unavailable works.
6. The Internet in the sphere of office-work became irreplaceable in coordination of actions of the different organizations and their branches. The cloud computing used for document exchange accelerated many routine processes that in turn gave the chance to optimize production due to change of the personnel policy.
7. However among all pluses, the Internet did not avoid also enormous minuses. Availability of Internet technologies gave a free hand to distributors of harmful information – a pornography, nationalist and frankly misanthropic materials, unreliable and slanderous information. Thus, with distribution of the Internet before mankind there was a need of mastering of technologies of work with information, ability to analyze and draw the correct conclusions.