The Internet
Chances are, anyone who is reading this paper has at one time, at least, surfed the net once. Don't worry if you haven't, I will explain everything you need to know about the Internet and the World Wide Web. Including how it started, it's growth, and the purpose it serves in today's society. The Internet was born roughly 25 years ago, as a U.S. Defense Department network called the ARPnet. The ARPnetwork was an experimental network designed to support military research. It was research about how to build networks that could withstand partial outages (like bomb attacks) and still be able to function. From that point on, Internet developers were responding to the market pressures, and began building or developing software for every conceivable type of computer. Internet uses started out with big companies, then to the government, and to the universities and so on. The World Wide Web or WWW, is an information service that is on the Internet. The World Wide Web is based on technology called hypertext, and was developed for physicist so they could send and retrieve information more easily. The World Wide Web basically is a tool for exploring or surfing the Internet. The World Wide Web is an attempt to
If you are on the Net, you can participate in any of these discussions in any of these newsgroups. To try and put that number into perspective, that's over five times the size of CompuServe, America On-line, Prodigy, Net zero and all other on-line commercial information services combined. All the information in this paper came from hard copy sources to show you don't have to get on the Net to find out about the Net. All of who had free or cheap access through their universities or research labs. Most, probably share a high enthusiasm for the Internet and want to send and receive e-mail messages. A growing number of companies are generating substantial sales of their products. There are over 11,000 on-line discussion groups called Newsgroups, on most any topic you can imagine. The next thing is Universal Electronic Mail or E-mail. E-mail is the biggest and cheapest system on the Net and is also one of its biggest attractions. ) "The Internet becomes the road more traveled as E-mail users discover no usage fee. Directory of Directories on the Internet Westport: Mecklermedia Ltd. From the latest statistics I was able to get, there are currently 30 million people who use the Internet worldwide. What's on the Internet: Berkeley: Peach Pit Press. " Steve Stecklow, Wall Street Journal (9/2/93).
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