Internet and its usage

We all have got used to the Internet and its usefulness.

Gone are the days when people needed to communicate to each other thro long letters sent by the Postal route. The letters took time to reach but people still communicated to each other.
Now it is the age of internet and mobile telephony.
E mails have become an essential means of communication and corresponding to everybody has become easy and fast.

In the past people tended to write long letters, now the e mails are to the point and often crisp and short.
The mobile telephony has taken the communication to the next level thro sms and faster connectivity.

In the past we in India had to book long distance calls thro the local telephone authorities and it used to cost a lot.
Now talking to your friends/folks abroad has become easy and cheap. No more booking calls and wasting precious time in awaiting the connection.
Talking to somebody in USA is as fast as talking to somebody in Mumbai.
The SMS has further made the texting messages shorter. The language is taking its toll, and now the people write to each other in a manner that new English language has been invented!

The advent of internet has brought in its wake manifold advantages.
One can browse sites, learn new things sitting at home, and get to know the news across the world in an instant.

The usage of internet is spreading fast.
India has a huge population of 1.2 billion and the internet awareness is spreading fast. Over 80% of the Indian population lives in Villages. The Internet has given them an opportunity to know about the world.
The internet usage in India is estimated to be 121 million increasing steadily year by year when it was only 53 million in 2008.It has seen an increase of 100% in three years. It can only grow exponentially in the years to come.

Compare this with Mobile telephone which has a figure of 700 million in India indicating the reach of this facility to a wider audience. Of course the mobiles are different because now every household of say 4 people, it would be with every member of the household unlike internet connectivity which generally would be one per household. It should be understood that possessing a computer is far more expensive so the reach is restricted.

The Indian government has recently launched a cheap alternative to the tablet and with this the reach would increase many times in the next few years. The mobiles are now equipped with internet facility so the reach of internet to the rural folks can be made easy as mobiles have reached the common man on the street.

It is very interesting to note that in Sweden the statistics show that even three year old children now access internet.

Internet is indeed a great boon to our civilization since the invention of written language.