what is internet ? its uses, future,& history?

Answer 1

Apart from above...

Internet has an unlimited possibility...
1. A dying patient in Canada can get a help of a genius doctor in India for treatment
2. A programmer in Hong Kong can be assisted by some Indian IT guy
3. DaVinci code review can be broadcasted in no time.
4. This can be used for propaganda
5. Internet can be used for spam
In short, Internet is a tool. It can be used for good and bad and evil.

Future of internet.. An interesting question. You should read about web 2.0. The world is moving out from a centralised web system to a distributed peer to peer environment. Read more at

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Answer 2

The Internet (also known simply as the Net) is the worldwide, publicly accessible system of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.

Contrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is a collection of interconnected computer networks, linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections etc.; the Web is a collection of interconnected documents, linked by hyperlinks and URLs, and is accessible using the Internet. The Internet also provides many other services including e-mail, file sharing and others described below.