The document provides an overview of the internet including its history, components, positive and negative impacts, and future developments. It discusses how the internet began as a US government project and has since grown exponentially. Positive impacts highlighted include improved communication, access to vast information, entertainment options, and e-commerce capabilities. Potential negative impacts discussed are theft of personal information, spamming, virus threats, pornography, and internet addiction. The future of the internet is predicted to include increased cloud computing, improved interfaces, fewer viruses, enhanced online video/TV, and customized online experiences based on personal preferences. Various internet connection types such as dial-up, DSL, cable, wireless, ISDN, leased lines, and internet service providers are also

2. Services: Internet is making our life a lot easier by offering different services like online banking, online booking, hotel reservations, online shopping, and many more!

3. Communication: The foremost target of internet has always been the communication. And internet has excelled beyond the expectations .Still; innovations are going on to make it faster, more reliable. By the advent of computer’s Internet, our earth has reduced and has attained the form of a global village.Now we can communicate in a fraction of second with a person who is sitting in the other part of the world. Today for better communication, we can avail the facilities of e-mail; we can chat for hours with our loved ones. There are plenty messenger services in offering. With help of such services, it has become very easy to establish a kind of global friendship where you can share your thoughts, can explore other cultures of different ethnicity.

4. Information: Information is probably the biggest advantage internet is offering. The Internet is a virtual treasure trove of information. Any kind of information on any topic under the sun is available on the Internet. The search engines like Google, yahoo is at your service on the Internet. You can almost find any type of data on almost any kind of subject that you are looking for. There is a huge amount of information available on the internet for just about every subject known to man, ranging from government law and services, trade fairs and conferences, market information, new ideas and technical support, the list is end less. Students and children are among the top users who surf the Internet for research.

5. Entertainment: Entertainment is another popular reason why many people prefer to surf the Internet. In fact, media of internet has become quite successful in trapping multifaceted entertainment factor. Downloading games, visiting chat rooms or just surfing the Web are some of the uses people have discovered. There are numerous games that may be downloaded from the Internet for free. The industry of online gaming has tasted dramatic and phenomenal attention by game lovers. Chat rooms are popular because users can meet new and interesting people. In fact, the Internet has been successfully used by people to find life long partners. When people surf the Web, there are numerous things that can be found. Music, hobbies, news and more can be found and shared on the Internet.

7. Spamming: Spamming refers to sending unwanted e-mails in bulk, which provide no purpose and needlessly obstruct the entire system. Such illegal activities can be very frustrating for you, and so instead of just ignoring it, you should make an effort to try and stop these activities so that using the Internet can become that much safer.

8. Virus threat: Virus is nothing but a program which disrupts the normal functioning of your computer systems. Computers attached to internet are more prone to virus attacks and they can end up into crashing your whole hard disk, causing you considerable headache.

9. Pornography: This is perhaps the biggest threat related to your children’s healthy mental life. A very serious issue concerning the Internet. There are thousands of pornographic sites on the Internet that can be easily found and can be a detrimental factor to letting children use the Internet.

11. Interfaces are revolutionised: keyboards and mice will seem quaint. Touch, eye, voice and possibly even brain controllers will be commonplace. If you think the iPhone is cool you haven’t seen anything yet. Understanding semantic context will make manipulating complex data childs play.

12. Viruses are no more : with the majority of software provided as a service (SaaS) viruses which plagued Windows users will be a thing of the past. However, new even more dangerous and sophisticated threats will emerge with personal data stored in the cloud a prime target.

13. Online Video / Internet TV: This is a trend that has already exploded on the Web - but you still get the sense there's a lot more to come yet. In October 2006 Google acquired the hottest online video property on the planet, YouTube. Later on that same month, news came out that the founders of Skype were building an Internet TV service In 2007, YouTube continues to dominate. Meanwhile Internet TV services are slowly getting off the ground. It's fair to say that in 10 years time, Internet TV will be totally different to what it is today. Higher quality pictures, more powerful streaming, personalization, sharing, and much more - it's all coming over the next decade.

14. Customized Reality: In the next ten years you can choose what kind of information that you want. You can choose news and information base on you preference. So maybe, if you irritating to watch topic about catastrophic around the world, you can just listen to what ever good thing that relieve your mind. Reality can become something that we can choose and in the end...there is no reality. Every information is base on your needs. Why bother to watch news that just make you un-happy?! You decide the reality yourself.

15. Zetta Flood: By 2015, one zettabyte of data will flow over the internet – If one normal cup of coffee is equal to 1 Gigabyte, then 1 zettabyte is equal to great wall of China! Stack of books from earth to Pluto 20 times is equivalent to a zettabyte.

17. ISDN Connection is one of the most widely used wired Internet options in the global market. ISDN connection is the abbreviated version of Integrated Service Digital Network. The data service of ISDN Connection is similar to that of ordinary telephone connection. ISDN Connection comes with cutting-edge technology. Due to its customer-friendly features, ISDN Internet connection is extensively used in e-commerce industry and web collaborations. ISDN Internet connection allows both way symmetric data communication. The call setup associated with Integrated Service Digital Network comes with very high speed. With ISDN Connection, caller ID requires no extra charge. Data speed of ISDN connection is more stable than that of any other wired Internet connection.