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“INTERNET”(1)(www dot com)

A wizard’s magic wand ?

Aladin’s wonderful magic lamp ?

Cindrella ‘s magic shoe ?

Saya Nyein

Prof. U Hla Myint,

(AE-119686)

Department of Electronic Engineering,

Defense Services Technological Academy,

Pyin Oo Lwin.

A wizard with a “magic wand” can fulfill his wishes.

Aladdin with his wonderful magic lamp looked for a beautiful princess and his wish was fulfilled by rubbing his Magic lamp.

Cindrella found her wonderful prince by means of her golden shoe.

Internet is more or less modern equivalent of magic lamp.

The difference is “you have to rub the lamp” and “you have to click the mouse” for the miracle to happen.

*You can get your “beautiful princess” not by rubbing but by clicking your magic mouse.

There are many agents who make matches with your specifications for a very reasonable fee.Two popular love-agents at present are www.loveHappens.com and www.eHarmony.com.

Last Saturday, my eldest daughter and her husband attended a wedding reception.

The bride ( Cindrella) is a lovely and wealthy lady from Mandalay and the groom (Golden prince) is a young handsome military officer from Pyin Oo Lwin.

They were matched by love-agent website www.loveHappens.com.

If you forget to specify age range, the agent may match you with 80 year-old lady or gent! Your princess’s age may lie between 15-80 years !.

*With a click of a mouse , you can mail instantly hundreds of friends , relatives and even strangers living thousands miles away at the speed of 186,000 miles per second and you don’t have to worry whether your mail reach the receipients.Because you will be informed instantly that your mail is sent successfully or delayed or your mail address is wrong.If it is delayed because of information traffic jam, it will be delivered as soon as traffic is light.

* If you are a businessperson ,you can do business with thousands of corporations at the speed of light.

*You can purchase any commodity on line.

*You can talk light or serious at a reasonable cost ( about 500 kyats per hour)with a friend who live housands of miles away( a former Electronic Engineering graduate of DSTA studying in USSR).

*If you are an Electronic engineer or a physicist , you can get relevant information about chips or diodes , transistors, integrated circuits, or whatever “hardwares”(2) or “softwares”(3) or “firmwares”(4) of your interest from hundreds of sites with a few clicks of mouse on relevant links.How many clicks you will have to make depend on your experience on

” surfing”(5) the Web.

*If you’re a student intending to study abroad, you can contact thousands of Universities all over the world with a few clicks of mouse.

In my opinion ,Internet is more or less modern equivalent of magic lamp.

Glossary

1.Internet

n. The worldwide collection of networks and gateways that use the TCP/IP suite of protocols to communicate with one another. At the heart of the Internet is a backbone of high-speed data communication lines between major nodes or host computers, consisting of thousands of commercial, government, educational, and other computer systems, that route data and messages. One or more Internet nodes can go off line without endangering the Internet as a whole or causing communications on the Internet to stop, because no single computer or network controls it. The genesis of the Internet was a decentralized network called ARPANET created by the Department of Defense in 1969 to facilitate communications in the event of a nuclear attack. Eventually other networks, including BITNET, Usenet, UUCP, and NSFnet, were connected to ARPANET. Currently, the Internet offers a range of services to users, such as FTP, e-mail, the World Wide Web, Usenet news, Gopher, IRC, telnet, and others.

2.hardware

n. The physical components of a computer system, including any peripheral equipment such as printers, modems, and mouse devices.

3.software

n. Computer programs; instructions that make hardware work. Two main types of software are system software (operating systems), which controls the workings of the computer, and applications, such as word processing programs, spreadsheets, and databases, which perform the tasks for which people use computers. Two additional categories, which are neither system nor application software but contain elements of both, are network software, which enables groups of computers to communicate, and language software, which provides programmers with the tools they need to write programs. In addition to these task-based categories, several types of software are described based on their method of distribution. These include packaged software (canned programs), sold primarily through retail outlets; freeware and public domain software, which are distributed free of charge; shareware, which is also distributed free of charge, although users are requested to pay a small registration fee for continued use of the program; and vaporware, software that is announced by a company or individuals but either never makes it to market or is very late. Your spouse age may lie between 15-80 years !

4.firmware. Software routines stored in read-only memory (ROM). Unlike random access memory (RAM), read-only memory stays intact even in the absence of electrical power. Startup routines and low-level input/output instructions are stored in firmware. It falls between software and hardware in terms of ease of modification.

5.surf

vb. To browse among collections of information on the Internet, in newsgroups, in Gopherspace, and especially on the World Wide Web. As in channel surfing while watching television, users ride the wave of what interests them, jumping from topic to topic or from one Internet site to another. Also called cruise

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