VIDYA PRATISHTHAN’S VASANTRAO PAWAR LAW COLLAGE VV VV VV SAVITRIBAI PHULE PUNE UNIVERSITY NAME: ANIKIT PAVAN SINGH CLASS: B.A.L.L.B (FIRST YEAR) ROLL NO: 05 SUBJECT: GENERAL ENGLISH PROJECT NAME: INTERNET A BOON SUBMITTED TO: MRS. OMMI PEERZADECERTIFICATE This project “Internet Is a Boon or Bane” has been successfully completed by MASTER ANIKIT P. SINGH Studying in Vidya Pratishthan’s Vasantrao Pawar Law Collage, Baramati Class - B.A.L.L.B (First Year) Roll no. 05 during the year 2022-2023. Teachers Signature Principal Signature Examiner Collage StampACKNOWLEDGEMENT In the accomplishment of this project successfully, many people have best owned upon me their blessings and the heart pledged support, this time | am utilizing to thank all the people who have been concerned with this project. Primarily | would thank God for being able to complete this project with success. Then would like to thank my principal Dr. Atul Shahane, English teacher Ommi Peerzade, whose valuable guidance has been the ones that helped me patch this project and make it full proof success. His suggestions and his instructions have served as the major contributor towards the completion of the project. Then | would like to thank my parents and friends who have helped me with their valuable suggestions and guidance has helpful in various phases of the completion of the project. Last but not the least | would like to thank my classmates who have helped me a lot.oF YN > INDEX INTRODUCTION HISTORY INTERNET IS & BOON SOCIAL IMPACT CONCLUSIONINTRODUCTION Internet is a network which provides different kinds of facilities information and connectivity. It is a global computer network where people can communicate with their customers, producers, relatives etc. There are many sources of internet which one can use; some are mobile networks, WI-FI, hotspot, broadband, cable etc. These are easily available and easy to use its speed may vary from each other because of the availability of the respective towers of network service provider and also from the types of networks like 2G,3G,4G,5G. Internet is a worldwide network which connect all the computers throughout the world and help them to communicate with each other.HISTORY The history of internet goes back to nineteens. The first question that pops into your mind is probably “Who started the internet?”. The internet was developed by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf in the 1970s. they began the design of what we today know as the “INTERNET”. It was the result of another research experiment which was called ARPANET, which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. This was initially supposed to be a communications system for the Defence Team of the United States of America — a network that would also survive a nuclear attack. It is believed that on 6 August 1991, when the World Wide Web opened to the public. «Father of the internet: Tim Berners-Lee -Tim Berners-Lee was the man, who led the development of the world wide web, the defining of HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), used to create web pages and URLS (Universal Resource Locater). The development of WWW, HTTP, HTML, URLS took place between 1989 and 1991. Tim Berners-Lee & Vinton Cerf is also named as Internet Daddy by the world.“Evolution of the internet :- Internet became popular in household in the 1990s. The emergence of the internet can be tracked by how many businesses and homes started changing the way they worked and started connecting their laptops and other devices to the internet. Worldwide Internet users'*°) Users 2005 2010 World 6.5 6.9 population®4 billion _ billion Worldwide 16% 30% In developing 9 9 world 8% 21% In developed 9 9 Rear 51% 67% 2017 74 billion 48% 41.3% 81% 2019 7.75 billion 53.6% 47% 86.6% 2021 7.9 billion 63% 57% 90% There has been a dramatic growth in the number of the internet users since its inception. As a result, the number of computer networks that are connected has grown exponentially too. It started with only connecting less than ten computers initially. 7Today, 440 million computers can be directly, making life is easier for people across the globe. Sharing information and knowledge has become extremely easy for those that have access to the internet. The country with the highest number of internet users is China with 1.4 n users, followed by India with 1.3 billion and the United States of America with a little over 0.3 billion users. Internet Users —- Top Countries, 2018 China India United States Indonesia Brazil Japan Russia Mexico Germany The Philippines United Kingdom Iran (LR.) Nigeria France Turkey = Internet Users Non-Internet UsersINTERNET IS & BOON © The internet is a boon in our generation today, the internet is growing rapidly. Many people use the internet because it gives a lot of benefits, one of the benefits of internet is medium of information. Today, a lot of people need the information from the internet because it is fastest way to get the information. Another benefit of internet is making profit online. People take advantage of the internet as their source of profit. And most often used benefit of the internet is by socializing. © The internet made our lives easier. Now, we are watching movies online, ordering food online, paying bills online, buying things online, studying online, etc. ¢ Because of the internet, the world has become a global village. Now people can connect with anyone and from anywhere in the world. © When the world is fighting the pandemic, several countries had to impose lockdowns. In that time, people stayed connected through the internet and are knowing the updates online. Without the internet, the mental heath of many would have been affected negatively.SOCLAL IMPACT © Electronic Business :- Electronic business (e-business) encompasses business processes spanning the entire value chain: purchasing, supply chain, management, marketing, sales, customer service, and businesses relationship. E — commerce seeks to add revenue streams using the internet to build and enhance relationships with client and partners. Today many e- commerce sites have been registered in the world such as amazon, flipkart, snapdeal, myntra, etc. helping millions of people to get their service fast and secure. Politics and Political Revolutions :- The internet has achieved new relevance as a political tool. The presidential campaign of Howard Dean in 2004 in the United States was notable for its success in soliciting donation via the internet. Many political groups use the internet to achieve a new method of organizing for carrying out their missions, having given rise to internet activism. Now many political parties use social media apps to do advertisement through internet. Grow their popularity and wins the election. 10© Philanthropy :- The spread of low-cost internet access in developing countries has opened up new possibilities for peer-to-peer charities, which allow individuals to contribute small amounts to charitable projects for other individuals. Websites, such as Donors choose and Global giving, allow small-scale donors to directs funds to individual projects of their choice. CONCLUSION Internet can be a boon or bane; it all depends upon how a person is using their connection to internet. After all internet has captured much of our life. Wasting our time on internet makes our physical health getting worst day by day, on the same time internet make our life easy and fast. THE END THANK-YOU 1