In today’s modern world, the Internet has become the most important medium of communication and information exchange both for personal as well as business interactions. Millions of people all over the world use the Internet for exploring information, accessing and exchanging information, enjoying multimedia communications, buying, selling and keeping in touch with family and friends worldwide.
5G is the fifth generation of the wireless network that is expected to be launched in India and the rest of the world in 2020. 5G will be a combination of the existing technologies like GSM, Wi-Fi, LTE, and the new radio access technologies. The major change that 5G brings will be higher capacity and higher broadband density to the customers. Many computers and users will be able to access the internet simultaneously at a very high rate. The telecommunication sector is also likely to benefit from the 5G network as it will enable better usage of smartphones by increasing their speed.
A couple of years back, 8K seemed like more of a dream or a resolution no one had yet to ask for. It has become a reality now and many leading brands have launched 8K televisions. Television manufacturers like Samsung, Toshiba, Hisense, and LG are coming with stunning models that are expected to be released this year.
Broadband generally refers to high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than the dial-up access connection. In Broadband, there are several high-speed transmission technologies like Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), fiber-optic, cable and satellite. Among these, the newest and fastest Internet connection is fiber-optic but the service areas are quite limited because of the delay in laying fiber-optic cable. So, Broadband literally means a bandwidth that is broad enough to handle a huge amount of data at the same time.
DSL Internet refers to high-speed internet access which uses existing copper telephone lines to transmit data. On the other hand, cable internet is high-speed broadband internet that makes use of a cable modem and a coaxial cable, similar to the wiring that feeds into your television set.
Dark Web is usually referred to as World Wide Web content that exists on the darknets, overlay networks that use the Internet but requires specific software, or configuration to access it. Dark Web, sometimes mistakenly referred to the as deep web, is also that part of Web not indexed by Search Engines.
First of all, let’s differentiate between upload speed and download speed. Download speed refers to the rate at which data is transferred from the internet to the user’s computer. At the same time, upload speed is the rate at which data is transferred from the local computer to the internet. More often, service providers set the default setting to download speed than upload speed. The primary reason is that most of the users have more download needs like downloading movies, songs and a large number of documents from the internet.
The internet has come a long way from the 1960s when its use was confined to just the military and academia. With further developments in associated technologies, the internet has revolutionized the way the world works. It has taken over almost every hemisphere of contemporary living and is set to evolve even further.
The advent of the internet has changed the way human beings operate in this world. This technology has literally taken over the world and is being applied in more and more aspects of day-to-day life. However, there is a common misconception about the internet and the ‘Web’ – with many people using them interchangeably.
For those not used to the computer language, a computer virus isn’t anything like the disease-causing human virus. A computer virus is more harmful than that and refers to a malicious software program that can disrupt the normal functioning of a computer system. These viruses can infect the host computer and modify its functioning in various damaging ways.
