The internet has created new winners and buries the laggards.
INTRODUCTION Today computers provide us with powerful tools for information handling for collection, organization, classification, retrieval and distribution. Computers have been used since the late 1960s for the storage of large databases such as library calalogues and bibliographic references. In this paper, the author is going to discuss the saying that “The internet has created new winners and buries the laggards” and the saying will be discussed in relation to information storage and retrieval. DEFINITION OF TERMS According to the Wikipedia the word internet is defined as a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard internet protocol suit (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide. It is an international networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business and government packet switched networks, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. On the other hand online informa