THE INTERNET

UNEDITED SAMPLE LITERARY
By Lavinia Lyka Lim Lopez
IV-Michael Faraday


According to Webster’s dictionary, the Internet is a large computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide. The Internet has Godlike characteristics. It is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. People worldwide use the Internet, mostly at the same time. People worldwide incorporate the Internet as a state-of-the-art weaponry that they utilize to survive in their everyday lives.

The use of the Internet is evident not only in the Philippines but also in different parts of the world. People of all kinds of profession use the Internet. Teachers use it as reference for teaching. Doctors use it to find out what is new in the field of medicine. Chief executives of small and big companies advertise in the Internet. An example of this is Starbucks, a large corporation who use the Internet for advertisements. Directors of blockbuster movies promote their work in the Internet. In the opening week of “Bruce Almighty”, you would often see various pictures and video clips of the movie in the Internet. Adults are not the only ones who use the Internet. In fact, students are the primary users of the Internet. It is their hub. Without the Internet, students would not be able to function well in school. This is where they get their assignments, reports, and researches. If they want to search for a delicious recipe of mushroom soup for their home economics class, they do it in the Internet. If they want to find out the biological system of cows for their science class, they do it in the Internet. If students need to check out the prototype of a computer because it is their assignment, they search for it using the Internet.

The Internet is really a necessity to mankind. Through the invention of the Internet, certain breakthroughs followed. Companies would not function properly without it. Teachers would have a hard time updating their knowledge if there is no Internet. People form different parts of the world would have a hard time communicating with each other. Children would be depressed for they will not be able to talk and to see their parents abroad without broadband which will only function if the Internet exists. Students would not survive school life without it. The Internet is really a part of everyone.