Internet Concepts

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Internet Concepts
Introduction to The Internet
Millions of computer users access the Internet each day to shop, listen to music, view museum exhibits, manage their investments, follow current events, and send electronic mail to other computer users. Additionally, thousands of people are using the Internet at work and at home to view and download to their local computer files containing graphics, sound, video, and text. The World Wide Web, or WWW, a subset of the Internet, uses computers called Web servers to store these multimedia files. These files are called Web pages.
Defining the Internet
A network is a group of two or more computers linked by communication media like cable or telephone lines. The Internet is a worldwide collection of computer networks connected by communication media that allow users to view and transfer information between computer locations. For example, an Internet user in New Mexico can access a computer in Canada, Australia, or Europe to view the contents of files stored there or download files to their computer quickly and easily. The Internet is not a single organization or entity but a cooperative effort by multiple organizations managing a variety of computers and different operating systems.
How the Internet Began
In the late 1960s, the United States Department of Defense developed an internet of dissimilar military computers called the ARPAnet. Computers on this internet communicated with new standard communication rules called the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol or TCP/IP. Additionally, a new technology called "packet switching" was developed for this internet that allowed data transmitted between computers to be broken up into smaller "packets" before being sent to its destination over a variety of communication routes. The data was then reassembled at its destination. These changes in communication technology enabled data to be communicated more efficiently between the different type computers and operating systems.
Soon, scientists and researchers at colleges and universities began using this internet to share data. In the 1980s the military portion of this internet became a separate network called the MILNET and the National Science Foundation began overseeing the remaining non-military portions now called the NSFnet. Thousands of other government, academic, and business computer networks began connecting to the NSFnet. By the late 1980s, the term Internet became widely used to describe this huge worldw...

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