History of World Wide Web and Internet

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#History of the World-Wide Web

• WWW allows computer users to locate and display multimedia-based documents,
• Introduced in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (Geneva).
• Today’s Internet mixes computing and communications technologies.
• Internet makes our work easier.
• internet is changing the nature of the way business is done.
• It makes information instantly and conveniently available to anyone with a connection
• Researchers can learn of scientific and academic breakthroughs worldwide.

# History of the Internet

• The Internet grew out of many developments in computer networking and telecommunications research.
• Early projects undertaken in early 1960’s by the US military (known as ARPAnet).
• Started with a dozen of Networked computer systems of universities and institutions, allowing computers to be shared.
• Allowing fast communication between researchers through Emails.
• Only people in the government, military and academic had access to the network.
• In 1991, the National Science Foundation (NFS) gradually started backing off from its subsidy of the backbone network, then allowed commercial access to the internet.
• With commercial access to the Internet, businesses and all kinds of agencies began to use the Internet to communicate, exchange data and distribute information;
• A host of businesses called Internet Service Providers (ISPs) sprang up. ISPs provide dialup access to the Internet; an individual or a business opens an account with the ISP, dials into the ISP’s computer and via the ISP’s computer connects to the Internet.
• Internet traffic grew,
• Many businesses spent heavily to improve the internet, therefore to better service their customers.Big competition among communication carriers, hardware and software suppliers.As a result, Internet’s bandwidth climbed high, & cost went down
  

  

# Internet Applications

• Internet Protocols

1. HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol):

which are the basis for information exchange on the Internet), HTTP is an application protocol.

2. HTTPs (“s” stands for security):

it is the same way as HTTP but used securely.

3.FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

4.Telnet

Other alternative in the Market: Terminal Services, PC Anywhere

• Email (Electronic Mail)

1. E-mail is the exchange of computer-stored messages by telecommunication.

2. you can send messages (text, graphic images and sound files) as attachments.

3. E-mail was one of the first uses of the Internet. Still it is the most widely used internet application.

4. A large percentage of the total traffic over the Internet is e-mail.

5. It uses Simple Mail Transfer Protocol or SMTP.

• Search Engines

1. Web sites that sort through by keywords and categories:

• Google (www.google.com)
• Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)
• Lycos (www.lycos.com)
• Altavista (www.altavista.com)

2. Store information in databases.

Returns list of sites as hyperlinks.

Meta-search engines:

• No Database maintenance.
• Combine results from multiple search engines.
• Microsoft MSN: www.msn.com