Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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- How many people use the internet ... ?
- Who coordinates the internet ... ?
- What does the future hold... ?
- Who uses the internet... ?
- What internet tools should I look for... ?
- What parts of the world have internet ... ?
How many people use the internet... ?
No one exactly knows how many people use the internet because it is impossible to take a census of it's users. According to estimates more than 10 million people currently use the internet. That number is expected to increase to 100 million by the end of the century.
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Who coordinates the internet ... ?
The internet Engineering Task Force coordinates the operation, management and evolution of the internet. The IETF is a large open group community of network designers, operators, venders, and researchers concerned with the internet and the internet protocalls. The task force looks at issues that will become important in five to ten years and how it will handle a billion users that is very fast approaching.
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Why does the future hold... ?
The future of the internet is going to be allot more exciting than in the past. People are becoming more creative, smarter. The past four or five years have seen the most thrilling advances making the internet worthwhile to use.
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Who uses the internet... ?
Today anyone can get an account on the internet. As you might imagine, people from every conceivable walk of life use the internet. It's possible to make assumptions about the types of people using the internet by looking at the distribution of host computers online .
605,402 Hosts belong to educational institutions.
567,686 Hosts belong to commercial organizations.
129,134 Hosts belong to governments
103,507 Hosts belong to the US military
50,544 Hosts belong to nonprofit organizations
12,608 Hosts belong to other networks
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What internet tools should I look for... ?
The best collection on internet access includes newsgroups, e-mail, as well as internets interactive tools-Telnet, FTP, Gopher, and so on.
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What parts of the world have internet ... ?
Most of the world has some sort of internet access. At last count 146 countries had some type of connection. Full internet access is enjoyed by Canada, United States, most of South America, all of Australia. Asia, and Europe. Africa is the least amount wired in the world.
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