The future of the internet is best described in terms of more bandwidth, more types of devices capable of accessing the internet and wireless connections that extend the internet to millions of users. Unlike some other computer technologies, the internet offers an ever-expanding vista of progress. It is far from a static medium and continues to grow and absorb huge numbers of new users worldwide and carry enormous amounts of data. Its strength is the adoption of technology standards such as the internet protocol (IP) which defines how the packets of data are carried over the internet.

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