List of different ways of internet usage
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Finding information
Catch up on the latest TV, gaming and movie news
Search up random things on (Youtube) and see what comes up.
Social websites
Music
Adds for jobs
Buying or selling goods
Miscellaneous material
Checking weather
The internet
1. It compares as almost the same.
2. They compare as the same again.
Internet
1. The internet and the (World Wide Web) are not the same but do have a part in each
other. (The World Wide Web) is a piece that makes up the internet.
2. My answer is correct
How The Internet Works: Large amount of computer networks working with each other
exchanging data and files of information.
History of internet: 1992, the internet was offered to the public usage by the government.
Use on the internet: Sharing research and business data among colleagues and like-minded
individuals. Communicating with others and transmitting files via E-mail. Requesting and
providing assistance with problems and questions. Marketing and publicizing products and
services. Gathering valuable feedback and suggestions from customers and business partners.
What makes the web unique: It's interactive, meaning that unlike TV, the broadcast is twoway. Anyone can 'publish' on the Internet For the first time, the vast majority of the world's
knowledge is accessible to anyone. Millions of people can share and take part in online
communities.
What is a browser? a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information
resources on the World Wide Web.
What is a URL: A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL, also known as web address.
What are applets: an applet is any small application that performs one specific task that runs
within the scope of a larger program, often as a plug-in.
The Net Around The World
Do all countries welcome the world wide web: Yes all the countries welcome the world
wide web, hence its name.
What inventions set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities of the
internet: Telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented
integration of capabilities.
What is the ISOC and who are its members: Alain Aina, Eric Burger, Narelle Clark, Keith
Davidson, Raúl Echeberría, David Farber, Eva Frölich, Bob Hinden, Jason Livingood, Lynn St.
Amour, Theresa Swinehart, Rudi Vansnick, and Bert Wijnen.
What are the ten most significant internet events
1.ARPANET - the military research network of the 1960s that became the Internet.
2.Hypertext - interlinking of digital text and media, predicted by Vannevar Bush in the 1940s,
developed by Ted Nelson and Douglas Engelbart in the 1960s.
3.Email - invented in the 1970s and is the bedrock of Internet-based communications
(honourable mention to Hotmail for making email more accessible in 1996 by offering the first
free web-based email service).
4.Domain Name System (DNS) - gives us the ability to use plain language web addresses.
5.MUDs (Multi-User Dungeon/Domain) - the first form of networked games, developed in the
late 1970s and is the precursor to modern forms of collaborative and online gaming such as
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG).
6.Archie - first Internet search engine (for FTP sites), developed at McGill University in 1990.
7.World Wide Web (WWW) - Tim Berners-Lee creates the ultimate digital medium in 1991.
8.Mosaic - user-friendly browser launched in 1993 that accelerated the popularity of the Web
by displaying images and text together.
9.Netscape's Initial Public Offering - the browser's phenomenal IPO propelled Internet
development and usage.
10.Secure Socket Layers - Netscape's encryption system, developed in the mid 1990s, helped
make the web secure enough to allow e-commerce and e-banking to flourish.
First ARPANET link was established between what two universities: University of California,
Berkeley, National Physical Laboratory.
What was the date of this event: 5 August 1968
Tim Berners-Lee:
A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an
internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European
Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His
specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread. He is the 3Com
Founders Professor of Engineering in the School of Engineering with a joint appointment in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Laboratory for Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence ( CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
where he also heads the Decentralized Information Group (DIG).
(http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/)
Marc Andreessen:
Marc was a student and part-time assistant at the National Center Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois when the World Wide Web began to take off. His
position at NCSA allowed him to become very familiar with the Internet. Like just about
everyone else who was involved with the Internet, he also became familiar with the Web. Most
of the browsers available then were for UNIX machines which were expensive. This meant that
the Web was mostly used by academics and engineers who had access to such machines. The
user-interfaces of available browsers also tended to be not very user-friendly, which also
hindered the spread of the Web. Marc decided to develop a browser that was easier to use and
more graphically rich. (http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html)
Vincent Cerf:
Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the
TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton
presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for
founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM
Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. The Turing award is
sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science." In November 2005, President George
Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the
highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn
received the prestigious Japan Prize. (http://www.icann.org/en/groups/board/cerf.htm)
Which region has the highest usage % in the world: Asia
Which region has the highest usage growth in the world during 2000-2005: Africa. 3606%
Where does North America rank among the world regions in percentage of internet usage:
3rd. 11.4%
What is your prediction of the future of the internet: The Internet will grow faster, larger, with
new developments and applications.
In order to be on the internet, you need the following:
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Modem Phone Line (dedicated is best)
ISP – Internet Service Provider
Anti-Virus Software
A computer
Resources for this Web Quest
lhttp://www.centerspan.org/tutorial/net.htm lhttp://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
lhttp://smithsonian.yahoo.com/index.html