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8 Internet—Online Surfi ng

Learning Outcomes Let’s Learn About

• Internet
Students will be able to
• Popular Internet Services
• learn about popular Internet services.
• Advantages and Disadvantages of Internet
• learn about advantages and disadvantages of • Potenti al Threats in Internet World
Internet. • Neti quett e
• learn about e-mail and its features. • Electronic Mail (E-mail) and Its Features
• learn to communicate through e-mail.

Activity Corner

Take help from the Internet to write a book review of your favourite storybook. Create a Word
document on it.

Internet

The Internet is the world’s largest computer
network which connects several computers of
diff erent types belonging to various networks
all over the globe. The Internet can be defi ned
as a technology for linking local area networks
(LANs) into a huge global computer network. So,
the Internet is a network of networks.
We will learn about diff erent Internet services,
threats associated with the use of Internet and
e-mail that serves as an important tool of online
communication in this chapter.

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