month the Internet is only getting bigger and if people don't start utilizing it's resources they could be road kill on this Information Superhighway. Hey, I'll bet in the middle of that last sentence another computer just got on-line to the Net. There are three major features of the Internet, On-line discussion groups, Universal Electronic Mail, files and software. There's about 11,000on-line discussion groups called Newsgroups, on most any topic you can imagine. If you are on the Net, you can participate in any of these discussions in any of these newsgroups. The next thing is Universal Electronic Mail or E-mail. E-mail is the biggest and cheapest system on the Net and is also one of it's biggest attractions. Since all commercial on-line services have something called "gateways" for sending and receiving electronic mail messages on the Internet, you're able to send and receive messagesor files to anyone else who is on-line, anywhere in the world and in seconds. The third feature I mentioned was files and software. This in my opinion is the most impressive one. All the thousands of individual computer facilities connected to the Internet are also vast storage repositories for hundreds of thousands of software programs, information text files, video and sound clips, and other computer based resources. And their all accessible in minutes from any personal computer on-line to theInternet. So I could do all this stuff on the Internet, why should I take notice? Because of it's sheer size, volume of messages, and it's incredible monthly growth. From the latest statistics I was able to get, their are currently 30 million people who use the Internet worldwide. To try and put that number into perspective, that's over five times the size of CompuServe, America On-line, Prodigy, and all other on-line commercial information services combined. Or if you're not familiar with those services,it's more than the combined populations of New York City, Lo...
