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Human history has moved on from Stone Age to the Industrial Age, and now we are experiencing the information age. In the past everything used to happen slowly like transition from one epoch to another, but now the Information Age has given new dimension to it. It has shaken many societies like a sonic boom, sending sudden waves of change in all directions. There has been population explosion in cyberspace. It has been estimated that more than 400 million people worldwide are using the Internet regularly, an online community has grown in 3000 times in size it was just seven years ago. The applications of advanced Information Technologies are as diverse as the many forms of human endeavor, and their impact is equally varied, creating new connections and open platform, inspiring new methods and building new alliances. Internet communities are created which are not defined by physical locations, but rather by interest, intellectual activity, purpose, or concern. Internet is rapidly transforming itself as users and innovators apply the technologies in ways we cannot yet foresee.