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You could look up almost anything that interests you on the Internet. You can find information about an interest on a special interest web site. Some special interest web sites are health sites, food, museum, and genealogy. If you want to find out information about health, diet and fitness, you can visit a health information web site. MayoClinic.com and WebMD give out health information. Food and cooking web sites are also special interest web sites. Food and cooking web sites give out recipes and nutrition information. You can use the web site to help you improve your cooking skills.

If you want to see an exhibit from a museum, but don't want to travel across the world too see it you can go on the website. Many museums will share pictures and information about exhibits on their web site. You can see artifacts and art work on some museum web sites.

If you want to build your family tree or find out information about your family you can go on a genealogy web site. 

There are also web sites for senior citizens. There are retirement web sites and health information sites for seniors. It is hard to keep your self organized and be able to keep track of all of your finances. People used to have to manage all of their finances the manual way. Some banks now offer online banking which make it easier for you. You can pay bills online, see what transactions you have made and view how much money you have in your accounts. If you are purchasing a new car or house but are not sure if you can afford it, you can look at an online mortgage calculator and an automobile calculator. If you want to find out information about insurance and compare prices there are insurance web sites. You can also find information about credit cards and find out which one works best for you on a credit web site. There are web sites that will help you with investments. You can take classes and educate your self online. Schools and colleges offer online learning. Businesses also use online learning to train their employees. If you don't like shopping in the store, you can shop online and buy anything that you want. If you want to compare products you are better off going to an online consumer market place. It is a lot easier to shop in an online market place than it is in a store if you are looking to get the best deals. Another place that you can find great deals is at an online auction. You can decide what you are willing to pay for a product by placing a bid. If you do not want to bid sometimes sellers will have a reserved price. A reserved priced is the lowest price that they will allow an item to be sold for. If you enjoy playing games there are many online gaming sites. Multi player games are becoming more popular. People from around the world can play each other in online games. On the Internet you can download and share files with other people. There are two types of downloading websites. They are freeware and shareware. In freeware software the author controls what you can do with your download, but you get the download for free. In a shareware software you get to try it out but only for a certain amount of time then you have to pay for the software. On a file transfer protocal you can search for files and down load and upload what ever ones that you like. You have to use an FTP client to be able to upload and download files. A peer to peer file sharing network is another way that you can share files. You can share music and videos over these networks.