Organisations, governments and individuals use networked computers to share information and ideas. The Internet is not owned by anyone, the participating networks are controlled by various interest groups. It is becoming increasingly commercial, characterised by rapid growth. The Internet has existed since the 1950's, although the World Wide Web is a phenomenon of the 1990's. Access to certain sites may be limited by password protection or other forms of restricted access.
Sites come and go with great frequency.
The World Wide Web is the graphical interface of the Internet that we see, offering pages of text, images, sound and videos. A graphical browser is software that allows you to see the contents of the WWW and lets you control the way some information is displayed. If you don t have these you can get them from InfoHelp . Off Campus there are a number of ISP's with different options that may suit you. Internet Accounting has been in operation at James Cook University since January 2000.