No Internet, No Web, No Problem
By Judd Luis Amaguin
The Internet and the world wide web (Web) have been a tremendous help to
business, education, Government, personal use, and many more. It serves as a medium to
communicate, connect with other people, share files for entertainment, etc. Others may say
that it is the greatest invention of all time after the discovery of fire. But nothing is permanent
in this word. What will happen if we suddenly disconnected ourselves from the Internet
Having no internet doesn't mean the end of the world. There would still be computers
available for personal use. That means, when you want to share files or connect with other
computers, you will need to use physical cables, a floppy disk, or a laser disk. Social media
will perish, and people will have to use their phones to call their friends. Connecting with
other people will need actual engagement and affection. We will go back to sending written
letters if we want to communicate with people far away from us. To give you a more detailed
vision, writer Ashley Timms published an article entitled, "Life without internet: What would
life be like without the internet?" We will discuss possible changes listed better to foresee a
life without this piece of technology.
What would change if we didn't have the Internet?
Business / Internet-based companies, like Google, Facebook, YouTube, etc. will stop
E-Commerce operations. E-commerce will have no medium to sell goods and will be a force to
sell items in stores. Advertising companies will lose a significant percentage, for
they mostly run their ads on the Web. The same goes for the online buyers;
people will once again go out and shop in physical stores.
News The news won't be accurate, and many misleading words will spread out in your
neighborhood. The primary source of information will be read through
newspapers. It will increase the demand for printing and publication houses.
Health With the health-related information available on the Internet, most people, saved
time and money going to the doctor. Also, the medical practitioner often relies on
the Internet to find medical records and insurance claims. Medical staff will have
to use big charts and others in the hospital to slow down the process.
Work Hunting for a job will be much more difficult without the help of the Internet and the
Web. People will have to go to job fairs, rely a lot more on spoken word of mouth,
advertising in print and on TV, and take days to complete even the smallest tasks
(Timms, A., 2018)
Law and Our Government holds information to almost all citizens that are kept on the Web.
Order The Web is also a great tool to find evidence. CCTV footage will be nonuse.
Having no connection to the Web and Internet for the Government will leave them
with many paper records. Knowing that the police will have limits, criminals would
be more likely to commit more crimes.
Social life Making friends will not start with "Add Friend"; people will need to engage with
real conversation or sending out handwritten letters by mail. Social gatherings will
appear everywhere, and people will feel genuine happiness.
Having no internet isn't such a bad thing. We need to keep in mind that humankind
survived for 1900 years without the Internet and the world wide web. Presently, the number of
active users of the Internet is roughly 4.5 billion people, 59 percent of the world's population.
Almost 3.1 billion people, or 41 percent, don't have access to the Web and Internet (Clement,
J., 2020). If the Internet suddenly disappeared, almost half of the population will not notice it.
The people that will be most affected by it are the millennials, but this will also allow them to go
out in the real world, socialize, and have real fun.
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Module 1, Lesson 2 Summary
What is Internet protocol?
Enable for the computers to communicate and understand each other, they must follow
a standardized protocol. Protocols are specific formatting for data in networking. Internet
Protocols (IP) are a particular method to transfer data from one computer to another. Each
computer has its unique IP address. When communicating with the computer, your message will
be broken down into small pieces of data called packets and will be filtered by the Transport
Control Protocol (TCP) to get to the other computer (Kamila, 2020)
Transport Control Protocol Layers:
L1 APPLICATION – Translates your message into signals that the hardware receives.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the usual protocol in the application layer.
L2 TRANSPORT – This layer uses the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) to define how
to establish and maintain a network conversation.
L3 INTERNET – This layer uses the Internet Protocol (IP) to deliver the packets.
L4 LINK – Packets are delivered through ethernet cables.
L5 PHYSICAL – receive these packets by your or other's necessary hardware of computer
network.
Computers that will receive these data packets will filter them in the same protocol layers
in reverse order so that the message could be reconstructed and understood by other
computers.
The World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is invented by Software Engineer Tim Berners Lee, a graduate
of Oxford University. In March 1989, Tim Berners Lee submitted a proposal for an information
management system to his boss, Mike Sendall (CERN, 2008). In 1991, Tim collaborated with
another engineer, Robert Cailliau, and published a follow-up paper proposing the new
invention known as the World Wide Web. This invention was made available to the public in
August 1991
The World Wide Web is no the Internet.
The Web is a set of standards on the Internet. An information system that allows files to
connect with other files through Hypertext links. The Web lets us publish videos, images, audio
files, documents linked together by things known as hyperlinks. Also, the Web provides a
graphical face for the Internet.
Important terms to know:
Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP)
The most common protocol that provides a structure for the World Wide Web. HTTP gives
rules on how things should be written for the Web. It gives no encryption.
HTTP over Secure Sockets Layer (HTTPS)
Similar to the standard HTTP, the only difference is that HTTPS provides encryption.
When you send data on the Web, it disarrays the original format so that nobody could
understand what you are sending, only your computer.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
The URL locates the addresses of the IP on the Internet. It is fundamental for the URL to
find the address to view the right webpage or website. Here is an example of the URL
format:
Protocol://domain name. net/other_information
Entitlement for the Top level domain
How you want to web page or website (TLD). It tells the web Location of the
access the owned by people. who is responsible for file in the Web
resources. Usually in You can buy domain keeping track of the server.
HTTP names from dif. Web DNS. Other TLDs
hosting companies are: .com/ .edu/
.org/ .gov/ etc.
Domain Name Service (DNS)
DNS converts the name of the URL to the IP Address. It serves as a database of all
domain names and IP Addresses used on the Internet (Ford).
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
HTML indicates the structure and content of the whole web page or web site (Domantas
G.). It is not a programming language, meaning it can't create dynamic functionality.
Instead, it allows you to display headings, paragraphs, pictures, and many more.
Web Browser
Web Browsers are applications designed to go onto the World Wide Web, request
information, read that information, and then present it to the user (Ford, 2014). Today, we
have many web browsers: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Lynx, and the
most frequently used Google Chrome.
Glossary of terms:
Data Packets - is a unit of data made into a single package that travels along a given network
path. Data packets are used in Internet Protocol (IP)
Hyperlinks - Hyperlinks are data-links used to connect documents to other documents. They
have highlighted texts that, if you click, would bring you to its linked form.
Protocols – Protocols are rules in the Web for commuters to communicate with one another.
They should run the same protocol so that their data will be synchronous.
Ethernet - Ethernet is an array of networking technologies and systems used in local area
networks (LAN), where computers are connected within a primary physical space.
Top-Level Domain (TLD) - Top-level domain (TLD) refers to the last segment of a domain
name or the part that follows immediately after the "dot" symbol.
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