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DISADVANTAGES OF INTERNET


                 The Internet can help children in learning, but it’s better to be                Factopedia
                 used only for a good cause. Some of the disadvantages of
                 Internet for children are:

                    It distracts you from your studies.

                     It wastes your time  and makes
                   you lazy.                                                                   World Wide Web or
                     It causes health issues and                                               WWW was invented

                   obesity.                                                                   by Sir Tim Berners-Lee
                                                                                                     in 1989.
                    It affects your eyes.
                     It makes  you  feel disconnected
                   from the real world.



                                                                   21 st
                  Let’s PraCtiCe                                Century   #Media Literacy
                                                                  Skills
                   Ask your teacher about your school website and if there is
                   not any, then try any educational website with the help of
                   your teacher. Open the website and identify the:
                   1.  URL        2.  Homepage     3.  Web page


                                                                                                  The full form of
                                                                                              MODEM is Modulator-
                            Let’s BaCk-uP                                                         Demodulator.

                       The Internet is a network of many computers across

                      the world.
                       A computer is connected to the Internet by means of
                      cables, telephone wires or some wireless media.

                       A website  is a collection  of related  web pages  that
                      provide information about a topic.
                       Web page is a page on a website.                                         The logo of Firefox
                                                                                                    is not a fox it is
                       World Wide Web (WWW) is the largest collection of
                      information in the form of websites on the Internet.                    actually a red panda.

                       Web browsers are used to open websites.
                       The address of a website is called as Uniform Resource
                      Locator or URL.

                       Internet saves time by providing information quickly.




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