Internet -A Boon .

                                                                

             Nineteen sixty nine may be marked as a pivotal year in history. Not necessarily because America sent a man to the moon, but because something called the Arpanet was born. A professor at an American university sent a message to another machine in Stanford, ushering in a new revolution in technology and soon Arpanet was morphed into internet.

               In a short 40 years, internet has given us e-mail, social networking sites, blogs, video streaming and instant access to unimaginable quantities of knowledge and information. Everything we wanted to know about anything is online, easily accessible just at a click of a mouse.
              As I just mentioned that internet knows no boundaries when it comes to catering information in a cheaper and a much faster way, it is no big surprise to see young students getting exposed to internet.
              With the dawn of satellite technology, internet has enabled a wide range of applications especially helpful for students. Students in Africa can access lab reports in U.S. kids can learn from the best teachers face- to –face from different parts of the world. In the ever so demanding 21st century, it is the need of every ambitious student to be updated. And with a fast moving world around us, arguing against internet and its users just because of some undesirable facts would be rather foolish. It is not the content available but what one searches for is important. Given a little control and parental guidance, all these issues are resolvable and internet can be a great boon to everyone across the globe.
              And as certain orthodox minded people accuse the net for dumbing down of human mind plead for the books as a better and healthy way for gathering knowledge as a slow and steady approach wins the race. But my dear friends, don’t you think that fast and steady would be a far better way to win any race that too in an era where we Indian students are looked upon by the world to perform and outperform others; can we afford to be slow?? Internet raises social awareness among students. Many would wonder how. But friends we earlier witnessed simple social networking site which hosted pages on an old man fasting against corruption getting more than 50 lakh followers in less than a week; and by and large most of them being school and college students. This is an evident example. The new citizens of India are gaining moral values and even a platform to raise their voice and mark themselves heard.
              We students who are to take the world forward should not look upon internet as a stumbling block in our lives just because of some messy things lying out there. Today when the internet connects more than 1.7 billion people across the world, about a t
hird of humanity, there are scopes of it being misused. But it’s time for us to accept and receive this revolution in its right sense and take full benefit of it. So friends, lets fasten our seat belts because we have only begun to figure out the many ways in which internet can be used productively. The only thing that can be guaranteed is that it will be a long and exciting journey ahead! ….