Internet
stands for International Network. It is the most largest computer network
system in the world. It is a global network of computers. Millions of computers
around the world can share any information at a time by using this worldwide
network system. The Internet is an ocean of information accessible to people
across the world, but the way it can be used on various platform is different.
The
Internet consist consists of millions of computer networks, connected together
around the world. A network is a group of connected computers each other. There
are no government rules and regulation for Internet and no ones censors the
information available in the Internet
The
Internet is an inter-connection between several computers of different types
belonging to various networks all over the globe. It is a network of networks.
The Internet is an ocean of information accessible to people across the world,
but the way it can be used on various platform is different.
A Brief History of the Internet
United States of America started a
project to allow researchers and
military personnel to communicate with each other in an emergency. The project
was called ARPnet (Advanced Research Projects Administration network) and it is
the foundation of the Internet. It began in a modest way with one computer in California and there in Utah. Later, to share the software and
hardware resources, the military allowed universities to join the network, from
where the students caught up with it and developed much of the software, giving
birth to the now so very popular Internet.
In 1969,
the Department of Defense (DoD) of the
Throughout
the 1970’s, what would later become the Internet was developed. While mostly
military personnel and scientists used it in its early days, the advent of the
World Wide Web in the early 1990’s changed all that.
Today, the
Internet is not owned or operated by any one entity. This worldwide computer
network allows people to communicate and exchange information in new ways.
The World Wide Web (WWW)
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Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer, invented
the World Wide Web in 1991.
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The web is a system of Internet servers that
support specially-formatted documents.
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These specially formatted documents are text
documents created in HTML, a formatting language. In conjunction with the World
Wide Web, your web browser interprets these text documents so they become web
pages.
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Web pages contain formatted text, graphics,
sound, animation, and video, allowing point and click navigation.
Is there any difference between the Internet and World Wide
Web?
Many people
use the terms Internet and world Wide Web interchangeable, but in fact the two
terms are not synonymous. The Internet and the Web are two separate but related
things. The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure.
It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which
any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both
connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so
via a variety for languages known as protocols. The World Wide Web, or simply
Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. The Web
uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoke over the Internet, to
transmit data. The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer or
Netscape, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each
other via hyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and
video. The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated
over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for e-mail, which
relies on SMPT, Usenet news groups, instant messaging and FTP. So the Web is
just a portion of the Internet, albeit a large portion, but the two terms are
not synonymous and should not be confused.