Student Project done by:
- Lau Ching Man, Karen
- Au Ming Wai, Astrid
- Kwan Yuk Tip
- Chan Man Chung
Their slides can be downloaded here
The Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that use the TCP/IP set of network protocols to reach billions of users. The Internet began as a U.S Department of Defense network to link scientists and university professors around the world..
A network of networks, today, the Internet serves as a global data communications system that links millions of private, public, academic and business networks via an international telecommunications backbone that consists of various electronic and optical networking technologies.
Definition
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol.
- It is a network protocol that defines how message (data) are routed from one end of a network to another.
WWW - World Wide Web
- It consists of worldwide collection of electronic documents (webpages).
Browser
- It is an application that enables users with an internet connection to access and view webpages on a computer or mobile device
Brief history of the internet
1962 - J.C.R. Licklider of MIT proposes the concept of a “Galactic Network”. For the first time ideas about a global network of computers are introduced.
1969 - ARPANET (The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) created. The message can send from one computer to another computer.
1972 - Ray Tomlinson creates the first program devoted to email. Mail can send back and front to the users and ARPANET.
1973 - Vinton Cref developing TCP/IP to allow computers on different networks to communicate with each other.
1983 - TCP/IP becomes the standard for internet protocol. Domain Name System introduced to allow domain name to automatically be assigned an IP number.
1991 - World Wide Web is created and implemented by Tim Berners Lee.
1993 - The first browser, Mosaic is released. Mosaic later becomes the Netscape browser which was the most popular browser in the mid 1990’s.
Function of Internet
- Communication
- Research
- Education
- Financial Transaction
- Real Time Updates
- Leisure
- Online Booking
- Job Search
- Blogging
- Shopping
The great and detailed introduction could be found in references and/or the student work below.