function on the internet today

Current Internet
Internet is maintained by bi-or multilateral agreements and technical specifications (protocol which describes the data transfer between the circuit). These protocols are established based on conversations Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is open to the public. The agency issued a document known as RFC (Request for Comments). Some RFCs are Internet standards (Internet Standard), the Internet Architecture Board (Internet Architecture Board - IAB). Internet protocols are commonly used are IP, TCP, UDP, DNS, PPP, SLIP, ICMP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, LDAP, and SSL. Some of the popular services on the Internet that use these protocols is to email / mail, Usenet, Newsgroups, share files (File Sharing), WWW (World Wide Web), Gopher, session access (Session Access), WAIS, finger, IRC, MUD, and Mush. Among all of these, email / electronic mail and the World Wide Web more often used, and many other services are built upon them, such as mailing lists (Mailing List) and Weblog. The Internet allows the current service (real-time service), such as web radio, and webcast, which can be accessed around the world. Also through the Internet it is possible to communicate directly between two or more users through instant messenger programs such as Camfrog, Pidgin (Gaim), Trilian, Kopete, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger and Windows Live Messenger. Some of the popular Internet services are based on a closed system (Proprietary System), is like IRC, ICQ, AIM, CDDB, and Gnutella.

Internet Culture
A large number of Internet users and growing, have realized the Internet culture. The Internet also has a great influence on science, and worldview. Through keyword-driven search engines such as Google, users worldwide have easy access to the Internet on a variety of information. Compared with books and libraries, the Internet represents (Decentralization) / knowledge (knowledge) information and data in the extreme. The development of the Internet has also influenced economic development. Various sale and purchase transactions that previously could only be done by face-to-face (and some very small by mail or telephone), is now very easy and is often done via the Internet.

Transactions over the Internet is known as e-commerce. Related to governance, the Internet also fueled the growth of government transparency in the implementation of e-government as Sragen which succeeded in delivering enhanced scalability by leveraging the Internet to the area of ​​transparency of public funds and trimming the bureaucracy, so that residents in the area on the stretcher so profitable as the civil servants could also be improved kesejahterannya as regional income rises sharply.

Codes of conduct for Internet
Just as a community, the Internet also has a certain order, which is known as Nettiquette or in the Indonesian language known as netiquette. For in Indonesia besides social order also imposed regulations on the Internet (UU ITE).

Moral issues and legislation
There are communities vacillation on the Internet that culminates in some controversial material in it. Copyright infringement, pornography, identity theft, and hate speech (hate speech), is a common and difficult to maintain. By 2007, Indonesia still has Cyberlaw, whereas academic draft bill Cyberlaw been discussed since 2000 by the Directorate General of Post and Telecommunication and the Ministry. Extant laws related to information technology and telecommunications are the Telecommunications Act of 1999. Internet is also blamed by some people for being a cause of death. Brandon Vedas died of drug use that goes beyond the spirit of friends chatting IRCnya. Shawn Woolley committed suicide because of an addiction to online games, Everquest. Brandes was stabbed killed, and eaten by Armin Meiwes after answering an ad on the Internet.

Internet Access
Countries with the best Internet access, including South Korea (50% instead of the population has access jalurlebar - Broadband), and Sweden. There are two common forms of Internet access, the dial-up, and jalurlebar. In Indonesia, as a developing country where access to the Internet and PC penetration is high enough on the Internet capacity is cheap and inexpensive netbooks, only operator in Indonesia less fair in pricing and there is even one of the operators who deliberately create a "trap trap" in order that the Internet users to pay for more expensive air-million million dollars!!, the other about 42% of Internet access through public facilities such as wireless Internet cafe, cybercafes, etc. hotspot. Other public areas are often used for Internet access are on campus and in the office.

Besides using a PC (Personal Computer), we can also access the Internet via mobile phones (HP) to use facilities called GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). GPRS is a wireless communication standard (wireless) that has a connection speed of 115 kbps and supports the wider application (graphics and multimedia). GPRS technology is accessible to support the facility. Pen-setting of GPRS on mobile Depending operators (Telkomsel, Indosat, XL, 3) is used. Internet access charges calculated by the amount of capacity (per-kilobite) downloaded.