ABSTRACT
This chapter covers the Internet and the various Internet resources: Email, electronic mailing lists, chat rooms, instant messaging, newsgroups, Web sites, blogs, microblogs, social networking sites, video sharing sites, and mobile apps. Electronic mailing lists are similar to email, in that messages are sent to electronic mailboxes for later retrieval. The Internet works in almost the same way, except it disassembles bits of data rather than a home entertainment system and reassembles the bits into a whole unit at its destination point. The bits of data that make up online information flow through interconnected computers from their points of origin to the destination. For many years, the Internet was the domain of scientists and researchers. It came into widespread use only in 1993 with the advent of the easy-to-use World Wide Web. Many tech-savvy Internet users have begun the quest for access to information without intrusion by advertisers and big data mining companies.
