Effects of Internet on Everyday Lives

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In my opinion, I believe the Internet has one of the largest effects on our everyday lives. The reason being is that it involves social media through growth of near-instant communication. Enhance Telecommunication has been around longer than people think. Social media started back in the 1950's such as typewriters. However, people did not consider typewriter a basic form of the Internet. The history of the Internet originated with the growth of electronic computers in the 1950s. Initial concepts of packet networking began in many computer science laboratories in the United States.
The Internet was not made known to the U.S until the 90's. The Internet is probably the heart of the world. For instance, you can use it to attend schools or colleges, e-mails, phone calls, two way video calls, and the Web with its dialog forums, blogs, social networking, and online shopping. In this day and time and the Internet is not made available to us, it's a good percentage that the world would be at a lost because it control a great deal of significant e-mails, government documents and more. Google, eBay, Apple, Samsung and many other corporations all depends on their sales from the internet. Together these companies and their power plays a major portion of the stock market and world economies. An Internet crash that lasted for any period of time would crush these businesses and bring them to a halt and send their stocks into a plunge, causing serious anxiety in financial markets around the world. The Internet brings in a lot of money especially from the top browsers like Google and Yahoo .Those internet search browsers also supply a lot of jobs for people all across the global.
The Internet is also a major part of education. Students no...

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... person you're in love with wouldn't be in your life today; and online games that everyone love to play would not exist. For me, I believe my life would be boring because that is all I have ever known is modern technology due to me being born in the 1990's.
As you can see the internet has a dramatic effect on our lives, it's almost like oxygen we need it to survive in this day in time. Mostly everything we do involves the internet. For example we can't go a day without it even if you do not have internet at home you still have to use it in your daily activities such as the Internet in the doctors' offices to check yourself in; in the school lunch lines to pay for your food; and police officers use it in their cars to run license plates. Years ago, many people could avoid the use of internet but now that's highly impossible because we live in the first world county.

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