Possibilities of the Internet are really boundless. Its resources grow every day, the new websites and a huge number of information constantly appear. Today by means of the Internet it is possible to execute the majority of the operations necessary in everyday life.
Now the Internet is used by more than 2.5 billion people and the quantity it constantly grows. Most the developed and developing states is already connected to worldwide network, and possibilities of satellite communication show that in the near future the Internet will be carried out even to remote regions. In the world where globalization comes to the first positions in the economic, social and political relations, it is impossible to imagine life without this universal remedy of communication.
Obtaining information
The main opportunity which is given by the Internet is communication. The world wide web connects among themselves all owners of network. In whatever place you were, it is possible to come on any resolved resource, to study information, to find new people with similar interests. The websites on the Internet are available different too therefore it is possible to select what suit you more: text, the websites with video, audio, pictures or photos. Such available source of information what the Internet is, did not know mankind yet. Now knowledge is not limited to walls of libraries, not separated by distance, even languages do not become a barrier as the great number of the translators working in the online mode is created.
All this provides primary benefits of the Internet: it is possible to find in it practically any information or the person. And it opens opportunities for communication and training without borders. Forums, chats, social networks, messengers - all this is created in order that any person could find in the world to himself friends, partners, teachers and pupils, interlocutors. In the wide area network a set of scientific and educational portals, libraries and storages of various information about mankind which can satisfy curiosity and thirst of knowledge of any person. With similar resources school and university education in a usual word meaning can shortly lose the importance. Not for nothing already today there are online courses, seminars, remote form of education at school and the university that each pupil had access to knowledge in the location, comfortable for it.
Dissemination of information
The Internet has almost boundless potential to give users new information every day and very quickly. Speed of dissemination of information was never so high: as soon as in the world there is some loud event, the mention of it immediately appears on the Internet, and then immediately disperses on other websites and can already become in a couple of minutes known to a huge number of users. Besides, the majority of similar information cannot be concealed or prohibited therefore in network publicity and freedom of speech much more relevant concepts, than for printed media.
Possibilities of the Internet in the sphere of business, shopping, freelance are almost boundless. On open spaces of a wide area network it is possible to find and buy almost any goods, to order delivery and to pay, without leaving the house. Here it is possible to find customers for work, clients, partners, to build up business relations at distance. Every year the level of money turnover of network grows, so that more and more companies understand advantages of online business and at least partially display the companies in Internet access. So there are thousands of shops, the websites and resources on social networks which sell goods and services. Besides, the global web extends the influence and on the sector of entertainments: there are games, movies, series, entertainment programs, even television channels are from now on broadcast not only on TV, but also on the Internet.