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The Internet is another name for a cluster of universal information possessions. The Internet is time and again thought of as a computer network, or at times a collection of computer networks linked to one another. These computer networks are plainly the medium that carries the information to and fro. The magnificence and usefulness of this cyberspace called the Internet lies solely in the information that is being sent out.

The Internet was in the beginning produced by the CIA in the 1960s and now after four decades, more or less each household in the planet makes use of it. The Internet also known as the web was formerly shaped to transmit information and to throw messages within branches of government, at the moment it's well thought-out as a major mass medium. The Internet, along with its innumerable advantages also has its disadvantages for all its users. However, it is the most preferred way to keep millions of people connected socially as well as professionally. Internet wasn’t this fast a medium as just four computers were registered with the internet address in the year 1969.

Today apart from just collecting information, you can also try out some interactive fun like email messages, chat rooms, movies, listen to music, play games and most importantly buy stuff. For an example, a person from the remotest part in Slovakia can buy things from a store in New York.

Directory Journal has been successful to list down the most prevalent categories in the internet niche. All that you are ever looking for to find out about the various interactive activities on the internet, then this is the place to be.

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Death toll in China quake reportedly nears 12,000 (AP)

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, locals gather on a campus in the earthquake-affected Beichuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Tuesday, May 13, 2008. The death toll from a powerful earthquake in China that toppled buildings, schools and chemical plants climbed Tuesday to about 10,000, while untold numbers remained trapped after the country's worst quake in three decades.  (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie)AP - Bodies covered with sheets lined the streets Tuesday as rescue workers dug through schools and homes turned into rubble by China's worst earthquake in three decades in a search for more victims. The official death toll rose to nearly 12,000, and thousands remained missing.


Clinton poised for W.Va. win; Obama looks ahead (AP)

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Lawmakers want to end oil shipments to US reserve (AP)

A motorist buys gasoline at a BP Amoco station in the Hyde Park neighborhood of  Chicago, Wednesday, April 30, 2008. Oil prices fell Wednesday after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates and a government report said U.S. fuel supplies unexpectedly fell last week. Meanwhile, gas prices, set another record, rising to a national average of nearly $3.62 a gallon. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)AP - Amid daily bipartisan sniping over high gas prices, Democrats and Republicans appear to agree on at least one thing: With oil over $120 a barrel, President Bush ought to stop buying crude for the government emergency reserve.