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INTERNET AND ITS
HISTORY
INTERNET
• The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer
networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to
communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of
networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and
government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad
array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies.
The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and
services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and
applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail,
HISTORY OF
INTERNET• The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts to build and interconnect
computer networks that arose from research and development in the United
States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in
the United Kingdom and France.
• Computer science was an emerging discipline in the late 1950s that began to
consider time-sharing between computer users and, later, the possibility of
achieving this over wide area networks. Independently, Paul Baran proposed a
distributed network based on data in message blocks in the early 1960s and
Donald Davies conceived of packet switching in 1965 at the National Physical
Laboratory (NPL) in the UK, which became a testbed for research for two
decades. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded contracts in 1969 for the
development of the ARPANET project, directed by Robert Taylor and managed by
Lawrence Roberts. ARPANET adopted the packet switching technology proposed
ARPANET
• Robert Taylor was promoted to the head of the Information
Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) at Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1966. He intended to realize Licklider's
ideas of an interconnected networking system. As part of the IPTO's
role, three network terminals had been installed: one for System
Development Corporation in Santa Monica, one for Project Genie at
University of California, Berkeley, and one for the Compatible Time-
Sharing System project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT).Taylor's identified need for networking becameARPA awarded
the contract to build the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman, and the
first ARPANET link was established between the University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute at
WWW AND
INTRODUCTION
• The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information
system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform
Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/), which may be
interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet.The resources of
the Web are transferred via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and may be
accessed by users by a software application called a web browser and are
published by a software application called a webMultiple web resources with a
common theme, a common domain name, or both, make up a website. Websites
are stored in computers that are running a program called a web server that
responds to requests made over the Internet from web browsers running on a
user's computer. Website content can be largely provided by a publisher, or
interactively where users contribute content or the content depends upon the
users or their actions. Websites may be provided for a myriad of informative,
entertainment, commercial, governmental, or non-governmental reasons. server.
THE INTERNET SOCIETY
• The Internet Society (ISOC) is an international, nonprofit organization
founded during 1992 "to assure the open development, evolution
and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the
world". With offices near Washington, DC, USA, and in Geneva,
Switzerland, ISOC has a membership base comprising more than 80
organizational and more than 50,000 individual members. Members
also form "chapters" based on either common geographical location
or special interests. There are currently more than 90 chapters
around the world.
• ISOC provides financial and organizational support to and promotes
the work of the standards settings bodies for which it is the
organizational home: the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the
Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering
Group (IESG), and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). ISOC also
promotes understanding and appreciation of the Internet model of
SEARCH ENGINE
• Even before the World Wide Web, there were search engines that attempted
to organize the Internet. The first of these was the Archie search engine
from McGill University in 1990, followed in 1991 by WAIS and Gopher. All
three of those systems predated the invention of the World Wide Web but all
continued to index the Web and the rest of the Internet for several years
after the Web appeared. There are still Gopher servers as of 2006, although
there are a great many more web servers.
• As the Web grew, search engines and Web directories were created to track
pages on the Web and allow people to find things. The first full-text Web search
engine was WebCrawler in 1994. Before WebCrawler, only Web page titles were
searched. Another early search engine, Lycos, was created in 1993 as a
university project, and was the first to achieve commercial success. During the
late 1990s, both Web directories and Web search engines were popular—Yahoo!
(founded 1994) and Altavista (founded 1995) were the respective industry
leaders. By August 2001, the directory model had begun to give way to search
MOBILE AND THE INTERNET
• The first mobile phone with Internet connectivity was the Nokia 9000 Communicator, launched in Finland
in 1996. The viability of Internet services access on mobile phones was limited until prices came down
from that model, and network providers started to develop systems and services conveniently accessible
on phones. NTT DoCoMo in Japan launched the first mobile Internet service, i-mode, in 1999 and this is
considered the birth of the mobile phone Internet services. In 2001, the mobile phone email system by
Research in Motion (now BlackBerry Limited) for their BlackBerry product was launched in America. To
make efficient use of the small screen and tiny keypad and one-handed operation typical of mobile
phones, a specific document and networking model was created for mobile devices, the Wireless
Application Protocol (WAP). Most mobile device Internet services operate using WAP. The growth of
mobile phone services was initially a primarily Asian phenomenon with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all
soon finding the majority of their Internet users accessing resources by phone rather than by PC.[citation
needed] Developing countries followed, with India, South Africa, Kenya, the Philippines, and Pakistan all
reporting that the majority of their domestic users accessed the Internet from a mobile phone rather than
a PC. The European and North American use of the Internet was influenced by a large installed base of
personal computers, and the growth of mobile phone Internet access was more gradual, but had reached
national penetration levels of 20–30% in most Western countries.[262] The cross-over occurred in 2008,
when more Internet access devices were mobile phones than personal computers. In many parts of the
developing world, the ratio is as much as 10 mobile phone users to one PC user.
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Internet and its history

  • 2. INTERNET • The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail,
  • 3. HISTORY OF INTERNET• The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts to build and interconnect computer networks that arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France. • Computer science was an emerging discipline in the late 1950s that began to consider time-sharing between computer users and, later, the possibility of achieving this over wide area networks. Independently, Paul Baran proposed a distributed network based on data in message blocks in the early 1960s and Donald Davies conceived of packet switching in 1965 at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in the UK, which became a testbed for research for two decades. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded contracts in 1969 for the development of the ARPANET project, directed by Robert Taylor and managed by Lawrence Roberts. ARPANET adopted the packet switching technology proposed
  • 4. ARPANET • Robert Taylor was promoted to the head of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 1966. He intended to realize Licklider's ideas of an interconnected networking system. As part of the IPTO's role, three network terminals had been installed: one for System Development Corporation in Santa Monica, one for Project Genie at University of California, Berkeley, and one for the Compatible Time- Sharing System project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Taylor's identified need for networking becameARPA awarded the contract to build the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman, and the first ARPANET link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute at
  • 5. WWW AND INTRODUCTION • The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/), which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet.The resources of the Web are transferred via the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and may be accessed by users by a software application called a web browser and are published by a software application called a webMultiple web resources with a common theme, a common domain name, or both, make up a website. Websites are stored in computers that are running a program called a web server that responds to requests made over the Internet from web browsers running on a user's computer. Website content can be largely provided by a publisher, or interactively where users contribute content or the content depends upon the users or their actions. Websites may be provided for a myriad of informative, entertainment, commercial, governmental, or non-governmental reasons. server.
  • 6. THE INTERNET SOCIETY • The Internet Society (ISOC) is an international, nonprofit organization founded during 1992 "to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world". With offices near Washington, DC, USA, and in Geneva, Switzerland, ISOC has a membership base comprising more than 80 organizational and more than 50,000 individual members. Members also form "chapters" based on either common geographical location or special interests. There are currently more than 90 chapters around the world. • ISOC provides financial and organizational support to and promotes the work of the standards settings bodies for which it is the organizational home: the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), and the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF). ISOC also promotes understanding and appreciation of the Internet model of
  • 7. SEARCH ENGINE • Even before the World Wide Web, there were search engines that attempted to organize the Internet. The first of these was the Archie search engine from McGill University in 1990, followed in 1991 by WAIS and Gopher. All three of those systems predated the invention of the World Wide Web but all continued to index the Web and the rest of the Internet for several years after the Web appeared. There are still Gopher servers as of 2006, although there are a great many more web servers. • As the Web grew, search engines and Web directories were created to track pages on the Web and allow people to find things. The first full-text Web search engine was WebCrawler in 1994. Before WebCrawler, only Web page titles were searched. Another early search engine, Lycos, was created in 1993 as a university project, and was the first to achieve commercial success. During the late 1990s, both Web directories and Web search engines were popular—Yahoo! (founded 1994) and Altavista (founded 1995) were the respective industry leaders. By August 2001, the directory model had begun to give way to search
  • 8. MOBILE AND THE INTERNET • The first mobile phone with Internet connectivity was the Nokia 9000 Communicator, launched in Finland in 1996. The viability of Internet services access on mobile phones was limited until prices came down from that model, and network providers started to develop systems and services conveniently accessible on phones. NTT DoCoMo in Japan launched the first mobile Internet service, i-mode, in 1999 and this is considered the birth of the mobile phone Internet services. In 2001, the mobile phone email system by Research in Motion (now BlackBerry Limited) for their BlackBerry product was launched in America. To make efficient use of the small screen and tiny keypad and one-handed operation typical of mobile phones, a specific document and networking model was created for mobile devices, the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). Most mobile device Internet services operate using WAP. The growth of mobile phone services was initially a primarily Asian phenomenon with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all soon finding the majority of their Internet users accessing resources by phone rather than by PC.[citation needed] Developing countries followed, with India, South Africa, Kenya, the Philippines, and Pakistan all reporting that the majority of their domestic users accessed the Internet from a mobile phone rather than a PC. The European and North American use of the Internet was influenced by a large installed base of personal computers, and the growth of mobile phone Internet access was more gradual, but had reached national penetration levels of 20–30% in most Western countries.[262] The cross-over occurred in 2008, when more Internet access devices were mobile phones than personal computers. In many parts of the developing world, the ratio is as much as 10 mobile phone users to one PC user.