The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use
the standard internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users
worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public,
academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are
linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking
technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources
and services, such as the inter-linked hyypertext documents of the World Wide
Web (WWW) and the insfrastructure to support email.
ARPANET is short for Advanced Research Projects Agency Networks. In 1957, the
United States Department of Defense formed a small agency called ARPA
(Advanced Research Projects Agency) to develop military science and
technology.From 1964-1965, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
started to research sharing information in small, phone-linked networks. ARPA is
one of their main sponsors.
In 1966, the first ARPANET plan is unveiled by Larry Roberts of MIT. Packet
switching technology is getting off the ground, and small university networks are
beginning to be developed.
IN 1969, the Department of Defense commissions the fledgling ARPAnet for
network research. The first official network nodes were UCLA, Standford Research
Institute,UCSB, and the University of Utah. The first node to node message was
sent from UCLA to SRI.
In 1971, more nodes join the network, bringing the total to 15. These new nodes
include Harvard and NASA.
In 1973, ARPAnet goes global when the the University College of London and
Norway's Royal Radar Establishment join up.
1971 - E-mail was invented by Ray Tomlinson
1973 - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed
1974 - IBM develops SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language ) now known as SQL
1975 - The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
1976 - Apple Computers was founded Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs
1979 – Usenet created by Tom Truscott
1982 - The word “Internet” is used for the first time.
First virus created by Rich Skrenta
Symantec founded
1983 - Domain Name System (DNS) pioneered by Jon Postel
1988 - Over 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.
1990 - Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau propose a 'hypertext' system starting the
modern Internet
1994 - US White House email comes on-line at whitehouse.gov; web site launches in
1994
President Bill Clinton: president@whitehouse.gov
1994 - YAHOO is created in April, 1994.
Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark start Netscape Communications. They
introduce the Navigator browser.
1995 - Java is introduced
Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos
EBay is founded by Pierre Omidyar
Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
1996 - WebTV is introduced
1997 - Altavista introduces its free online translator Babel Fish
Microsoft acquires Hotmail
1998 - Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7,
1998PayPal is founded by Peter Thiel and Max Levchin
1999 – Nokia created 7110.This phone connected to internet
2002 - Approximately 1 billion PCs been sold
2004 – Facebook created by Mark Zuckenberk
2005 – eBay acquires Skype
YouTube.com is launched.
2006 - Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users.
There are more than 92 million websites online.
Twitter created by Jack Dorsey
2007 - Legal online music downloads triple to 6.7 million downloads per week.
The online game, World of Warcraft, hits a milestone when it surpasses 9 million
subscribers worldwide in July.
Many people use the internet to access news, weather and sports reports, to plan
and book vacations and to find out more about their interests. People use chat,
messaging and email to make and stay in touch with friends worldwide,
sometimes in the same way as some previously had pen pals. The Internet has
seen a growing number of Web desktops, where users can access their files and
settings via the Internet.
Internet use by language
Website content languages
Social media technologies take on many different forms including magazines, Internet
forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, social networks, podcasts,
photographs or pictures, video, rating and social bookmarking
Many people take of distance education through the Internet.
The widespread use of computers and
the internet made distance learning distribution
easier and faster and gave rise to virtual schools
and virtual universities in which the entire
educational offerings are conducted online
Mail goes 2-3 days.
E-mail goes 2-3 minutes.
Gmail Capaticy is 10357.549922 Mb
E-mail or email is text messages that may contain files, images, or other attachments
sent through a network to a specific individual or group of individuals
eBay is an online marketplace built to enable trade on a local, national and
international basis. eBay offers an online platform where millions of items are
traded each day through Online Auction Formats, also called auction-style
listings, or through immediate "Buy It Now" Fixed Price and eBay Store listings.
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Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print) is a
service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that
Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition, and
stored in its digital database.
Online gaming is a technology rather than a genre, a mechanism for connecting players
together rather than a particular pattern of gameplay. Online games are played over some
form of computer network, typically on the Internet. One advantage of online games is the
ability to connect to multiplayer games, although single-player online games are quite
common as well. A second advantage of online games is that a great percentage of games
don’t require payment. Also third that is worth noting is the availability of wide variety of
games for all type of game players.