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The internet is a gigantic pool of things, and you can find virtually anything. The internet allows you to do many things, and now many people use it on a daily basis. People can send message on things like e-mail and talk to others instantly using video chat. You can also share things. Information can e posted on websites, but it is important to realize that not everything is necessarily true. there are a million things to do. You can create websites that express your ideas and opinions, or you can create a website for educational purposes.The internet can also be used for business, or for purchasing and selling things. You can do this at place such as Amazon, eBay, and Craig's list. Anything can be bought on the internet by giving your credit card number, and then having the item shipped to your house. But a way people can communicate is on forums, which are good for asking questions about any subject and talking to others about any topic. People also use social networking, but I have another page on that.

Basically, the internet is a gigantic source of information that is mostly free to people. You can use the internet for jobs and difficult tasks. it saves people enormous amounts of time. Instead of going to the bank, you can just transact money online. This is one of the largest benefits. You can also store things on the internet, and calculate anything, too. Of course, the internet can also be used for school and education. You can get learning material, create courses, and give information to students online.

If you want to find something specific, you can use a search engine, such as google. Search engines allow you to try to find a specific thing or website on the internet by typing in the title of a website or a keyword. For example, if you were interested in snowboarding and wanted to find out more techniques for it, you could type in "snowboarding techniques" and choose a good looking website from a list given to you.

__Websites__

Websites can serve many purposes, but you may be asking: "How do I start a site?" Well, I asked an expert named Chunyang Wang, a Principal Application Developer, and he gave me some advice on how to start. First of all, you have to install a web authoring tool and get it ready. When you have everything ready, you need to design your pages with color, font size, format, and how you want to present your info with themes. You need to think about what information you are going to show, and what sections you are going to have on your website. Then you should create links to navigate around your site. If your site needs to be open to the public, you need to publish your website onto a server.

After you have your website open, you might want to know how popular it is, or if people are visiting it at all. You can buy one or use a free one if you don't know any fancy programming language. You would go to a website, register for an account, and follow the given instructions to configure the hit counter into your site. Now you can see how many people have visited your website.

Sometimes, websites might not work, or the internet may be giving you some trouble. This could be involved in many things. If you know your problem, you may be able to solve it yourself, like replacing your WiFi card, or replacing your modem. But it may not be your computer, because sometimes the website requires something to be on for you to access it. For example: if you are trying to visit a website, you may need to allow a cookie in your browser if the site needs it. The cookie keeps track of the visitor of the website's info. Maybe you might need to allow a pop-up window if the website requires it. This is usually bad design for commercial websites. If you have trouble and you have no way to fix it, you should call for help.

__Effects of the Internet__

The internet affects many people's life in many different ways. People largely communicate on the internet using tools such as video chats and e-mails and messaging. Around 75 to 90 percent of teenagers use e-mail and IMs and chat rooms. But this great things can have some negative effects sometimes. In research, it is shown that people who inflict pain on themselves sometimes unite using message boards. this shows that the internet can reveal the good and the bad sides of people. Studies also show that kids who use the internet more have higher grade point averages and scores. I know, surprising, right? The reason for this may be the fact that going on the internet makes kids read more, which results in higher scores.

People have found a nice way of conveying feelings in a fun way. Emoticons are small faces or symbols that are made up of keyboard symbols that represent an emotion or person. For example: :) is a happy face that is made up of a colon and a parenthesis. This is one of the most commonly used ones. There are many more different emoticons that become more and more complicated. An example of one of these is the teletubby emoticon: -(0)=8 . Most emoticons have you tilting your head to the left to see what the actual picture/emotion/symbol is. The first emoticon was created in 1982, and it looked like this: :-) .

Some may ask whether or not the internet is a good effect on people and what are the pros and cons. My answer is that the internet can be very useful if used the right way, but can be dangerous if not. The good effects of the internet are out there. It makes many things easier, quicker, and it is sometimes a good source of information and materials. It can really help people in their daily lives and jobs. But it has a bad side too. Anyone can post anything, and so lies may be spread with false information. Their is some explicit and dangerous content on the internet that can be innapropriate for some younger people, and the internet can be used for bad purposes. People can gain access to negative things, and many crimes have been conducted using the internet. But in the end, the internet is used everyday, and in my opinion, it is mostly a positve influence.

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