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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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