What is Internet?

              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)

·                    Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer, invented the World Wide Web in 1991.

·                    The web is a system of Internet servers that support specially-formatted documents.

·                    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.

·                    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.