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2. A network allows computers and users connected to it to communicate
with each other quickly and easily.

3. Networking makes it possible to share expensive hardware devices. For

example, instead of giving 10 printers to 10 employees, one printer can be
placed in a network for everyone to share.

4. A network connects computers and their users, allowing them to share
data quickly and easily with each other.

INTERNET

The Internet is also a kind of network. It is in fact the biggest network of all,

connecting millions of computers and

thousands of smaller computer networks
across the world.

Internet connects millions of computers

through satellites or through telephone
lines and a large number of network

devices globally.

Benefits of Connecting to the Internet

When you connect to the Internet, you connect to the millions of computers

across the world and to the people who use these computers. Connecting to the
internet offers you many benefits. The main ones are as follows:

1. The Internet allows you access to a large amount 2. The Internet allows you to send/receive
of information stored on the World Wide Web messages instantly to/from other internet
or www . users all over the world through e-mails .

WORLD WIDE WEB

The World Wide Web(www) is a service available on the Internet. You can
consider it as one huge electronic library that gives access to a vast amount of

information.

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