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What Is Internet

The document discusses the Internet, providing definitions and a brief history. It defines the Internet as the largest network of networks in the world, connecting government, university, and private computers. The history notes ARPAnet in 1969 as the earliest experimental computer network and the renaming as the Internet. It also discusses important figures like Paul Baran and Vinton Cerf and services like email, the World Wide Web, search engines, and Wikipedia. Finally, it mentions the impact of the Internet on education, healthcare, and business.

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What Is Internet

The document discusses the Internet, providing definitions and a brief history. It defines the Internet as the largest network of networks in the world, connecting government, university, and private computers. The history notes ARPAnet in 1969 as the earliest experimental computer network and the renaming as the Internet. It also discusses important figures like Paul Baran and Vinton Cerf and services like email, the World Wide Web, search engines, and Wikipedia. Finally, it mentions the impact of the Internet on education, healthcare, and business.

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INTERNET

Session Objective
What is INTERNET ?
Brief History of Internet.
Services provided by Internet.
Impact of Internet.
Education.
Health Care.
Business.
What is I N T E R N E T ?
The largest network of networks in
the world.
What is I N T E R N E T ?
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A network of networks, joining many


government, university and private
computers together and providing an
infrastructure for the use of E-mail,
bulletin boards, file archives,
hypertext documents, databases and
other computational resources.
What is I N T E R N E T ?
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The vast collection of computer


networks which form and act as a
single huge network for transport of
data and messages across distances
which can be anywhere from the
same office to anywhere in the
world.
Brief History of Internet
ARPA Advanced Research Project
Agency.
1969 January 2 started an
experimental Computer Network.
Concept No Server, but equal
importance/participation to every
computer in the Network.
Even if, one or two node destroyed
that will not affect the Network.
Paul Baran

Paul Baran developed the


field of packet switching
networks while conducting
research at the historic
RAND organization.
Vinton Cerf

Father of Internet
Co-designer of the TCP/IP
networking protocol.
Brief History of Internet
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First named as ARPANET

This is renamed as INTERNET

TCP/IP (Transmission Control


Protocol/Internet Protocol)
Internet Growth Trends
1977: 111 hosts on Internet
1981: 213 hosts
1983: 562 hosts
1984: 1,000 hosts
1986: 5,000 hosts
1987: 10,000 hosts
1989: 100,000 hosts
1992: 1,000,000 hosts
2001: 150 175 million hosts
2002: over 200 million hosts
By 2010, about 80% of the planet will be on the
Internet
How to Connect to Internet
Internet Services
Electronic Mail (e-mail)
World Wide Web
Telnet
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Internet Telephone
Web TV/Radio
Internet Relay Chat
News Groups
Electronic Mail (e-Mail)
Distributes e-mail messages and
attached files to one or more
electronic mailboxes.

Eg:- e-mail addresses


[email protected]
[email protected]
Electronic Mail (e-Mail)
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thomas @ mes . edu . in

Name of Person Organization Type of Organization Country

murugan @ mesmarampally . org


Electronic Mail (e-Mail)
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Different e-mail service providers

G-Mail

Yahoo Mail

Hot Mail
World Wide Web (W W W)
Most important service provided by
Internet.

An internet-based hypermedia initiative


for global information sharing.

Developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee of


the European Particle Physics Lab (CERN)
in Switzerland.
Tim Berners-Lee
Father of W W W.

The inventor of
HTML.

Invented W W W
while working at
CERN, the European
Particle Physics
Laboratory.
Search Engines
For searching information on the
Internet.

Google
Yahoo
Altavista
WIKIPEDIA
A wiki is a publishing platform on which
many people can contribute new content
and revise existing content.
The content benefits from the collective
knowledge of the contributors, so wikis
can be very beneficial for group projects.
Some businesses and organizations use
wikis to maintain documents.
Impact of Internet
Education

Health Care

Business

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