Type of Applications
As computer science students, we spend most of our time with computers. This
may limit our chance to know other people outside our field.
If you are interested in meeting different kinds of people, then,
you can use the dating services on the Internet.
Through the Internet, you can choose the kinds of friends that you want.
For example, if you would like to know a girl - all you have to do is push
the right buttons, and the internet may deliver for you!
The Internet will search and find those people who match your basic choice.
Some of the sites not only provide peresonal information,
but also pictures as well. You can pick as many people as you want.
Then, you can look through all of them and pick those that your are interested
in. You can pick as many as you want!! If you are too shy to initiate
the communication, you can list your peresonal inforamtion in the Web
and wait for others to contact you.
Dating Sites
Once you have found the person of your dreams, you have to start the next
step; send a mail. However, if you want to contact someone who does not
understand English, then, what can you do? With the Internet, you don't
have to worry about this problem. The translating services can help you to
translate various languages, such as Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, or Spanish.
For example, you want to know how to write "How are you" in Russian.
What you need to do is to type in "How are you" in English and it will
show you the Russian writing.
Translating Sites
Let say, after talking with each other for a while, you find that both of
you have the same interests and you want to develop a closer relationship.
What will you do then? The best way is to buy a present for him/her.
However, if you are too busy or too lazy to go to shop in the mall,
you can do your shopping through the Internet. You can access to the Internet
mall. The Internet mall is just like the our daily shopping mall, such as Market Mall, except with a much wide variety of 'stores' all aroud the world.
The home page of it is like a mall directory.
It lists a variety of categories, such as
"The Internet Mall" classify the categories and put them into
different levels in the mall.
Click the one you like and will bring you to an appropriate level.
Then, you can shop around there, choose the present you like.
Let say, in order to express your feelings to him/her, you decide to buy
the traditional but the most powerful present, that is a bouquet.
You can order different kinds of flowers and send to different places even
across countries. Moreover, you can browse and view the item before you
purchase it.
Shopping Site
If you develop a mature relationship with him/her, you
may get married, or develop a 'real-world' realtionship.
After getting marry, your burden will become heavier.
So, you may want to find a better job to support your new family, those kids
get expensive.
Again, the Internet can give you a hand. You can look for job by typing
in your desired position and the Internet will search and list all the
available jobs. If you want to increase your chance of getting a job,
you can even post you resume so that some companies can browse through it.
It is much convenient than sending letter to companies and it saves a lot
of time too.
Suppose you are a lucky person and you get a new job.
However, you are assigned to do something that you have never learned,
say build a new WWW home page for the company using HTML.
You can take advantage of the educatation services of the Internet
by browsing to "A Beginner's Guide to HTML". In fact, there are a lot of information servers in the Internet for us to look up information, such as manuals or magazines
Groupware Reference
Finally, the Internet serves the groupware purpose, like the e-mail.
You can now keep in frequent contact with your overseas friend by sending
an e-mail. Nowadays, many companies advertised in the World Wide Web provided
with their e-mail addresses to improve the communication with their
customers. Groupware is an interesting topic, for more information
you can check out the presentation prepared for this class about