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States Department of Defence. It was called ARPANET and it was meant to connect
                 only a few computers with each other.

                 ARPANET was developed  with the  aim  of sharing information  on research and

                 development and was used only by the government officials and scientists. It was
                 later opened for the universities to spread education and share their resources.

                 The network rapidly grew bigger and, by the 1990s, a modern version of the network,
                 the Internet, as we know it today, had evolved. Thinking about life without the use of

                 the Internet has become difficult.



                           USES OF INTERNET


                 The most extensive uses of Internet are:

                 E-mail (Electronic mail): It is an online communication system.

                 E-mail  enables  us to send and receive  messages  to  people
                 anywhere around the world within a matter of seconds.




                                                               E-learning: The Internet can become  your
                                                               guide that can help you in a school project. The

                                                               education system has changed dramatically
                                                               with the rise of e-learning and other facets of

                                                               online education.









                 E-shopping: The shopping that we do online
                 is called e-shopping. There are many online

                 shopping websites from where we can buy or
                 sell products on the Internet while sitting at
                 home.






                                 Flipkart is a popular online shopping company. It was founded in 2007 by Sachin
                                 Bansal and Binny Bansal.






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