What is internet and how it can help? What are the best services of internet and why it`s useful to use them?
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The Internet:  An electronic network of computers that includes nearly every university, government, and research facility in the world. Also included are many commercial sites. It started with four interconnected computers in 1969 and was known as ARPAnet.\n\nBest services: \nSearch engines (Yahoo!, Google, MSN Search)\nCommunity sites (Yahoo! Answers, Yahoo! Groups)\nFree Email\nBill Paying\nOnline Shopping (Food, Clothing, Electronics)\nOnline Banking\n\nInternet Service Providers:\nThere are many of these but amoung the top are (AOL, Earthlink, Comcast, Verizon DSL, SBC, Netzero, Netscape)\n\nThere is a wealth of information the "BEST" is usually a matter of perspective, not set in stone.
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ISP is Internet Service Provider. It is the company that provides the infrastructure, such as cabling, connections, speed provisioning and maintainence for your internet connection service. If you are at home, your ISP could be Comcast for Cable or Verizon for DSL. If you are in a company, it probably maintains its own internet service. If you are in a University or Government office, they maintain their own internet service.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
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The internet is an amazing piece of technology that allows you to communicate with people (strangers and friends alike) all around the world, which simply isn't possible and/or practical with telephones. In this sense, the internet builds bridges, which helps connect vast groups of people thay wouldn't otherwise communicate with each other.  Examples: myspace, chatrooms, online forums, yahoo answers\n\nHowever, the internet can also builds walls.  Sitting in front of a computer isolates you from local people.  You can lack real human contact, which is important for a fulfilling life.  Also, nowadays, people can do almost everything online: check grades, banking, grocery shopping & other kinds of shopping, etc.  The convenience of doing everything online prevents people from going out to a store or a bank and interacting with people face-to-face.\n\nTo conclude, the internet is both a curse and a blessing.  It can work for you or against you, and this depends on how you choose to use it.
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Internet is a network of inter-connected computers with different Operating Systems and protocols working on different networks.\nTo connect all the networks we need a gateway which convert one protocol data to different so all networks can connect.
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The internet is not a place, or even a thing that's located in a place.  It's not even a place, in the tangible sense.  It's just something that is.  "The internet" simply refers to the union of all the different servers out there where all the information for all the different websites you go to is stored.
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The content of the internet reflects the collective contents of the minds of mankind. It makes it extremely easy to access all kinds of information and resources - both good and bad. At the end of the day its how you choose to use it that will determine its effect on you.
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If you have questions on how to use the Internet you might want to check out a book that will help you more. Or better yet you can take Introduction to the Internet at most community colleges.\n\nThe books will break it down to the basics but the class will help you feel more comfortable with what you are doing. I took the class 10+ years ago and have not been far from it since. It is very addicting.\n\nI wish you the best of luck. Any questions feel free to message me.\n\nSome Books that might help you are:\nInternet for Dummies and K.I.S.S. Internet \n\nLinks Below
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The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web. The Internet was named as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2006.\n\nContrary 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 and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, as are many other services including e-mail, file sharing, and others
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The Internet is the infrastructure of the overall network, i.e. the nuts and the bolts.  Basically it amounts to the physical hardware, software, cabling, protocols, etc. required for running the network.  The Web is one application which is an overlay over the Internet.  Other applications are email, file transfer, remote login, file sharing (P2P), audio-video streaming, VoIP, etc.
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You can find everything on the internet, all kinds of services and it seems the features are getting better all of the time.\nJust start looking, it is all here
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Internet : \n\n                        The Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nContrary 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 and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible via the Internet, as are many other services including e-mail, file sharing, and others described below.\n\n\nCreation of the Internet :\n\nThe Internet is the worldwide, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks that transmit data by packet switching using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of smaller domestic, academic, business, and government networks, which together carry various information and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked Web pages and other documents of the World Wide Web.\n\nThe USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, later known as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.\n\nIn 1950, Licklider moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT where he served on a committee that established MIT Lincoln Laboratory. He worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.\n\nLicklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to Circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first node went live at UCLA on October 29, 1969 on what would be called the ARPANET, one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet. Following on from this, the British Post Office, Western Union International and Tymnet collaborated to create the first international packet switched network, referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. This network grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981.\n\nThe first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by 1 January 1983, when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. (This date is held by some to be technically that of the birth of the Internet.) It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1985. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the NSFNet include Usenet, Bitnet and the various commercial and educational X.25 Compuserve and JANET. Telenet (later called Sprintnet), was a large privately-funded national computer network with free dialup access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation
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Internet Business is a business related to internet (i.e. you sell web space, bandwidth)\nE-business is any busyness that uses internet as media to sell to the world, you could sell anything.
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its just because you can found a lot of fun and interesting stuff through internet.. its really great being connected with others in this big world.. =)
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The best service you could offer would be to refrain from contributing to the clutter on the World Wide Web.\n\nUnless you have a legitimate purpose, do not attempt to come up with something for the sake of coming up with something.
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It continues to impact use.  Since the internet is part of telecommunication in the broader sense, it has affected you right now as you are reading this.  The distance between people grows less and less everyday.
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the World Wide Web....lol\n\n\n\n\n\n\nseriously, the best thing in this world is life.....\n\n\n\n\n\nthen there's love...