Week 5: Internet

The Internet

-it is a global system interconnected networks that uses the standard internet protocol to serve billions of users that allows users to connect with each other around the world. Its uses are to find general information, send and receive files between computers, share resources, to correspond or meet people and shop for product and services.

The History of the Internet

In 1960, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began to study ways to interconnect network in various kinds and it began to evolve and combine with other network quickly. In 1986, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) initiated the development of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFN) which became the major component of internet.

  Internet Services

1.       Email- it allows messages to be exchanged from computer to computer such as Yahoo, Gmail, MSN and Hotmail.

2.       Web- it is created by Tim Berners Lee which contains hypertext links or highlighted keywords and images that lead to related information and it is organized using documents called web pages.

3.       Transfer Protocol- protocol is the set of rules/ software that the computers use to move files from one computer to another on the Internet such as HTTP.

4.       Chat Room- channel/medium/location on Internet that allow people to chat with each other such as Real chat, Yahoo Message Chat Room and AOL Chat Room.

5.       Voice over internet protocol (VOIP)- allow users to speak  to other user over internet such as Skype, Windows Live Call, Yahoo Voice and NetMeeting.

6.       News Group- it is an electronic bulletin board that conduct discussions about specific topic or subject such as Newsreader.