Internet Use among Central Luzon State University Students

Thelma T.Dancel
Carlota Villaroman
Angelie D. Maningas
Nico F.Ace Salas
BSBA1-1

First Semester
Academic Year 2009 - 2010

One of the technologies dominating the computer industry today is Internet technology. The Internet, also called the Information Superhighway, is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite. It carries a vast array of information resources and services and the infrastructure to support electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and person-to-person communication via voice and video.

The origins of the Internet reach back to the 1960s when the United States funded research projects of its military agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. On 6 August 1991, CERN, a pan European organization for particle research, publicized the new World Wide Web project. The Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. It was eventually replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. By 1996 usage of the word Internet had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its use as a synecdoche in reference to the World Wide Web. (Wikipedia.com, 2009)

As of 2009, an estimated quarter of Earth's population uses the services of the Internet. During the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew by 100 percent per year, with a brief period of explosive growth in 1996 and 1997. This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration. Using various statistics, Advanced Micro Devices estimated the population of Internet users to be 1.5 billion as of January 2009.

The Internet can now be accessed virtually anywhere by numerous means. Mobile phones,