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All of them speak the same language, TCP/IP, the standard protocol. The Internet
allows people with access to these networks to share information and knowledge.
Resources available on the Internet are chat groups, e-mail, newsgroups, file
transfers, and the World Wide Web. The Internet has no centralized authority and
it is uncensored. The Internet belongs to everyone and to no one.
The Internet is structured in a hierarchy. At the top, each country has
at least one public backbone network. Backbone networks are made of high speed
lines that connect to other backbones. There are thousands of service providers
and networks that connect home or college users to the backbone networks. Today,
there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more than one-hundred countries
worldwide. However, it all started with one network.
In the early 1960's the Cold War was escalating and the United States
Government was faced with a problem. How could the country communicate after a
nuclear war? The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA, had a
solution. They would create a non-centralized network that linked from city to
. . .
present. This is the equivalent of the Internet address and
tells the computer where to find the particular page you are looking for. Previously, the
Internet was black and white, text, and files. Today, the Internet is used
globally for a variety of purposes.
Alas, if students fail to find job openings they are interested in, they can
post their resumes to employment service Web sites which try to match employers
with those seeking employment. Links usually appear in a different color than the rest of the text
on a Web page and are often underlined. As we approach the 21st century, we are experiencing a great
transformation due to the Internet and the World Wide Web. If there is one
aspect of this field that is advancing faster than any other, it is the ease
with which this technology can be learned. The standard protocol invented in 1977 was called
TCP/IP. The network was designed to function when parts of it
were destroyed. Students can use one
of the many Search Engines on the Web to locate information on virtually any
topic, just by typing the topic that they wish to find information on. The Defense Communications Agency shut
down ARPANET because its functions had been taken over by NSFNET.
Already, issues of censorship and free-speech have come to take center stage, as
the world scrambles to deal with the power of modern technology. They can include any type of file at all.
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