Technology drives the world, this way or that way. Internet is the greatest technology ever been introduced. Now it’s not only a technology, it’s become so essential element of human life. You will find simple email to high-tech online banking everything here. A whole new civilization up here, you can bet on that. As community grows so is its needs, internet is nothing different than that.

Like normal community here is threats, laws, justice, humanity, shopping, library, education, entertainment, banking……so on, almost everything. Anyway I am getting away from the topic. Key essentials of someone internet presence, what are those?

· E-mail(the most basic)
What should I say……hmm E-mail is something very common in internet; it’s like a mailing address on the net world. There are many kinds of email providers. Free & paid basically. Paid email addresses provide better storage facilities and better security (mostly).
Most notable email service providers—
§ Gmail
§ AOL
§ msn
§ yahoo
……………….many more

· Web Space
Web space is almost like a land in the cyber world. You can say foothold/ dwelling: P, at least for net dwellers like me. There are many free webs space (w or w/o Ad supported), paid web space too (usually domain—a unique web address that point your web space). Some notable free web space provider—
§ Awardspace
§ Freespace
§ Myspace
§ Tripod
§ Yahoo
………………….many more
For paid hosting/web space, So far notable are—-
§ Lunar pages (Gives free domain with every hosting)
§ IX web hosting
§ Host excellence
§ Blue Host
§ Yahoo

· Security
That is the most important element needed in online. As like normal world, cyber world also crawl with criminals—Hackers, spammers, carder etc. There are also malicious viruses, worms, spy wares, Mel wares. So you need to be on guard, and that’s where security software’s come up. The best place for your security software (without spending)—
§ CNet (Regularly reviewed free/paid/ trial software for download)

Now you are armed with most basic weapon in Cyber civilization. It’s a huge world with limitless potentiality. You can communicate, Do business, Banking, Earning etc., but you have to explore your own way, just like the real life.