AN HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNET AS A MODERN COMMUNICATION MEDIUM AND lTS ROLE IN GLOBALIZATION

In a bid to unite the disintegrated world. many world leaders recommended globalization as the panacea for worldly problems. According to some scholars, the internet acts as a great facilitator inglobalization because people gain access now to knowledge and services from around the world than ever before. Some fear globalization, while others 'welcome the development. Majority ofpeople (even some literate class) have only' a hazy idea of the two concepts globalization and internet. ' This paper delves into the historical analysis of internet andglobalization for people to have indepth knowledge of the two concepts and the role of in tern et in globalization. study reveals that though the world is connected throughglobalization and internet, yet it is seriously disintegrated.Going by the words of Ache be, The world has fallen apart and the centre can no longer hold.