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To the teachers who I respect, to my beloved friend, and everyone who attending in this
place, thank you very much to give me time so I can stand up here in front all of you to deliver a
speech.
On this happy morning, let us reflect and pray together for a moment, hopefully we are
up this morning still blessed with happines by God the Almighty, given the power to give thanks
always. And let us prove to keep running and stay away from the obligation imposed by Allah the
Lord is the Most Just.
Well, today, in this very special moment, let me stand here to deliver a speech about
Internet Effect for Our Life.
As we know, nowadays, Internet is very important for us. But, actually, what is the
meaning of Internet ? The Internet is combined worldwide network of computers that form a
global information network system. The history of Internet started in 1969 when Defense Advance
Research Projects Agency (DAPRA) decided to conduct research on how to connect a number of
computer. Actually, Internet originally used in military and university. But now, general public
around the world can enjoy, or access them very easily. The number of Internet users in one
country can be the size of the country's technological progress.
People are always hanging out around the world with its luxury world of tech, luxury, and
practical, the Internet can be found wherever we are. Or if not, in every corner of the city must
have a stall that sells Internet services or commonly called a cafe. Information World without
Borders, that's how people call it. With the Internet, access to delivery information in the world
can be retrieved easily while turning the hand or eye blink.
In education, education is one of field that utilizes the internet extensively for interests
of the quality of an educational institution. Internet can be says as virtual library that containing
millions of information about everythings, one of them is information of education. Internet can be
used as a source of alternative learning. For teachers, internet can increase their knowledge, they
can cooperate with teachers from other countries, manage communications, and participate in
forums. Teachers can find knowledge source from internet too. And for students, they can study
by themselves without teacher and they can communicate too with other students.
There are a lot of positive and negative effects from Intenet. At the first, let see it from
the positive.
1.
Internet as a medium of communication. This function is a function of the most commonly
used, every Internet user can communicate with other users worldwide. These functions are
usually obtained from chat or email facilities.
2.
Media of data exchange. By using email, newsgroups, FTP and WWW, Internet users
worldwide can exchange information quickly and cheaply. For example, theres a person in
Indonesia, he made a blog and in the blog contained information, then, people around the world
can access it, the other people can give advice or exchange ideas.
3.
Media to seek information or data. Rapid growth makes the Internet as a source of
important information, fast, and accurate.
4.
Ease of doing business. Ease of transacting and doing business in the field of trade, so no
need to go to retail outlets. It called with MLM (Multi Level Marketing)
5.
Income source. Nowadays, many people who use the Internet as a source of income.