About this article: History and The Evolution of The Internet

The evolution of the Internet has brought about an expansion of the communication era which was not possible in the past. The Internet connects people from all parts of the world with minimal effort

History and the evolution of the internet.

The vast, global internet of today had rather humble origins when it initiated. In 1969, the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) developed an experimental network called ARPAnet to link together four supercomputing centres for military research. This network had the many and difficult design requirements that it had to be fast, reliable, and capable of withstanding a nuclear bomb destroying any one computer center on the network. From those original four computers, this network evolved into the sprawling network of millions of computers we know today as the internet. The internet itself is really a massive "network of networks." There is no central "Internet, Inc," to which you can connect. Essentially, it is a collection of Internet service providers (ISPs) who each operate their own networks, with their own clients, and agree to interconnect with each other and exchange packets. Many of the large ISPs sell

connections to their network to smaller ISPs, some of whom again sell connections to other ISPs. Ultimately, these ISPs at all levels sell connections to individuals and corporations, who then merge their networks (or individual computers) into this larger network called the internet. While there is no exact governance of the Internet, communication standards and coordination of ISP actions are overseen by a nonprofit organization called the Internet Society. An affiliated organization, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) coordinates the work of numerous committees that define Internet communication standards and research methods of explaining and improving Internet communication. The actual communication standards are referred to as RFCs (Requests for Comments) and are voluntarily adhered to by all ISPs. Internet uses can be simply categorized as publishing and getting information on various subjects like marketing, management, science, new technologies, training materials, jobs, higher education, mathematics, music, games, software, etc. and E-Commerce And the kind of information available in the internet can also be listed as text documents, graphic files, sound and video files, downloadable games and software, demo games and software, etc. At the speed the internet has been evolving, many

predictions can be made about the internet in the future, like main communication method coming with functions of being translated automatically into the language preferred by the receiver, finding a tune through humming into the microphone, virtual tours of a house, car, etc. could become common thing. This is what the Internet has become today, starting from its modest birth in 1969, to become an indispensable service for the human race at present and will remain the same in the future.

What Is The Internet? The Internet is at its most basic definition an electronic communications network. It is the structure on which the World Wide Web is based. What is the World Wide Web? The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet "designed to allow easier navigation through the use of graphical user interfaces and hypertext links between different addresses" (source:Websters). The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, and continues to change and expand rapidly. The Web is the user part of the Internet. People use the Web to communicate and access information for business and recreational purposes. The Web and the Internet - Not The Same Thing The Internet and the Web work together, but they are not the same thing. The Internet provides the underlying structure, and the Web utilizes that structure to offer content, documents, multimedia, etc. Home > World Wide Web World Wide Web A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well asgraphics, audio, and video files. This means you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web. There are several applications called Web browsers that make it easy toaccess the World Wide Web; Two of the most popular being Firefox andMicrosoft's Internet Explorer. World Wide Web is not synonymous with the Internet.

See The Difference Between the Internet and the World Wide Web in the Did You Know...? section of Webopedia. Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (aka. the Web) interchangeably, but in fact the two terms are not synonymous. The Internet and the Web are two separate but related things. What is The Internet? 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 of languages known as protocols. What is The Web (World Wide Web)? The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use HTTP to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each other viahyperlinks. 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 SMTP,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. HTML is a computer language devised to allow website creation. These websites can then be viewed by anyone else connected to the Internet. It is relatively easy to learn, with the basics being accessible to most people in one sitting; and quite powerful in what it allows you to create. It is constantly undergoing revision and evolution to meet the demands and requirements of the growing Internet audience under the direction of the W3C, the organisation charged with designing and maintaining the language. The definition of HTML is HyperText Markup Language. HyperText is the method by which you move around on the web by clicking on special text called hyperlinks which bring you to the next page. The fact that it ishyper just means it is not linear i.e. you can go to any place on the Internet whenever you want by clicking on links there is no set order to do things in. Markup is what HTML tags do to the text inside them. They mark it as a certain type of text (italicised text, for example). HTML is a Language, as it has code-words and syntax like any other language. How does it work? HTML consists of a series of short codes typed into a text-file by the site author these are the tags. The text is then saved as a html file, and viewed through a browser, like Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. This browser reads the file and translates the text into a visible form, hopefully rendering the page as the author had intended. Writing your ownHTML entails using tags correctly to create your vision. You can use anything from a rudimentary texteditor to a powerful graphical editor to create HTML pages. What are the tags up to? The tags are what separate normal text from HTML code. You might know them as the words between the <angle-brackets>. They allow all the cool stuff like images and tables and stuff, just by telling your browser what to render on the page. Different tags will perform different functions. The tags themselves dont appear when you view your page through a browser, but their effects do. The simplest tags do nothing more than apply formatting to some text, like this: <b>These words will be bold</b>, and these will not.

In the example above, the <b> tags were wrapped around some text, and their effect will be that the contained text will be bolded when viewed through an ordinary web browser. If you want to see a list of a load of tags to see whats ahead of you, look at this tag reference. Learning the tags themselves is dealt with in the next section of this website, My First Site. Is this going to take long? Well, it depends on what you want from it. Knowing HTML will take only a few days of reading and learning the codes for what you want. You can have the basics down in an hour. Once you know the tags you can create HTML pages. However, using HTML and designing good websites is a different story, which is why I try to do more than just teach you code here at HTML Source I like to add in as much adviceas possible too. Good website design is half skill and half talent, I reckon. Learningtechniques and correct use of your tag knowledge will improve your work immensely, and a good understanding of general design and the audience youre trying to reach will improve your websites chances of success. Luckily, these things can be researched and understood, as long as youre willing to work at it so you can output better websites. The range of skills you will learn as a result of running your own website is impressive. Youll learn about aspects of graphic design, typography and computer programming. Your efficiency with computers in general increases.Youll also learn about promotion and your writing will probably improve too, as you adapt to write for certain audiences. Do I have to be online all the time? Not at all. You can code your entire website offline, storing it all on your own computer, and then just transfer all the files onto the web. Then whenever you have new content, you just add that to the existing online version of your site. Its really quite simple. Is there anything HTML cant do? Of course, but since making websites became more popular and needs increased many other supporting languages have been created to allow new stuff to happen, plus HTML ismodified every few years to make way for improvements. Cascading Stylesheets are used to control how your pages are presented, and make pages more accessible. Basic special effects and interaction is provided by JavaScript, which adds a lot of power to basic HTML. Most of this advanced stuff is for later down the road, but when using all of these technologies together, you have a lot of power at your disposal. Why not get a quick view of times gone by with The History of HTML? If you think youre ready to start coding, head over to the My First Site section and begin creating! Internet Quick Facts. If ever you feel facts are lacking for a topic, it would not be so for the subject of the internet. With the amount of work it is capable of, the amount of work put into it, with the amount of words linked with it, facts are waiting to be added to the already over flowing list of facts on the internet. As an almost every day user did you ever take the time to think, how did the internet start? How big is it? Average time spent on the internet? Average number of users? These are the facts on the internet which one should know whether it interests you or not. Did you think about the famous three letters we type in the address bar "WWW" (World Wide Web) do you know who introduced this phrase & when? It was none other then Mr, Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. What about the phrase "Information Superhighway", Mr. Nam June Paik used this phrase in 1974. Taken the time to think who can be named as the father of internet? In reality one will get many answers to it as there is no one person alone. Mr. J. C. R. Licklider is named as one for his ideas of 'Interactive Computing'. Mr. Vinton Gray Cerf is named as another for playing the key role in the creation of the internet by developing the TCP/IP protocols used for the internet. Ever communicated online and thought when the first long distant connection was established? Well in 1965 MIT researcher, Mr. Lawrence G. Roberts with Mr. Thomas Merrill, connected the PC's in Massachusetts. Thou

the phone lines weren't up to standard, this is the first ever long distant connection established. Who introduced the well known concept of packet switching? It was none other then Mr. Leonard Kleinrock. When was the first mouse ever introduced? In 1968 Mr. Douglas Engelbart introduced the mouse at thell joint computer Expo in San Francisco. How fast is the internet growing? Very much faster as it reached 50 million in just 5 years, where as Radio and TV took 38 & 13 years respectively. (Source: Cyber atlas.com). What about the country which has the highest number of internet browsers? It is none other then Sweden with a astonishing 75%. We search and search and almost always find results? Then did you imagine how big the Internet's surfing world is? Google has defined its index at more than 8 billion. A final quick fact which will interest you is an average surfing habit of an individual, including you. Each month approximately, you would be visiting 59 domains; view 1050 pages and spend about 25 hours in these activities. Each surfing session lasting around an hour.

About this article: Internet in The Future

The Internet will definitely be in the future of communication technology, as it is becoming the core of our daily communication and way of conducting everyday business.

Internet in the future.

The internet is a resource one cannot live without at present. Whether to obtain information, meet foreign friends, or play games with people around the world and perform other interesting activities the internet has become a necessity. Imagine what new changes could be brought upon to and through the internet for its users. v The main communication method of emails could come with a function of being translated automatically into the language preferred by the receiver. v Maybe you can find a tune through humming into the microphone. v Maybe Email spam will be reduced through a new form of email system. v Virtual tours of a house, car, and other items could become a common thing. v Job interviews could be conducted online through a video conference. v An article may come with an option of being read in your own language. v E-Marketing would reach new heights with technology enabling products to be displayed in 3D With so many new possibilities we can picture in the future, there are other changes one can expect from the internet in line with technology. The internet will be cheaper; creating more opportunities for people of all ages and races to access the most

updated information from anywhere at any time, unlike the other mediums available at the present like, newspapers, radio and televisions. What ever the improvements with regard to the technology and even though most of the activities will become automated, humans will still remain in charge of it unlike the image many have build in their minds that with technology advances, devices like computers and robots will take over the human races. English will be a universal language of global communications, while other languages will grow in prominence with one reason being the availability of access to the internet to increase knowledge and skill level on different languages as required. Tuition classes can become a thing of the past with the increase of access to the internet for students. There would be practice materials and more information and study materials available on line to access and improve their understanding on the subject. Entertainment will be only a click away, with entertainment materials to suit everyone's need. In short changes will be seen in networks, education, families, creativity, entertainment, internet connections, civic engagement, extreme communities, digital products, health systems, social networks and politics,. because of the changes that will come forth on the internet.