Lesson 2 - Internet History and Networking
Lesson 2 - Internet History and Networking
History and
Growth
Lesson 2
Learning Objectives
• Discuss the Internet History
• Define what is Networking
• Enumerate the types of Network
• Identify the evolution of Internet
• Name pioneers of the Internet
• Discuss the growth of the internet
VICTORIAN
INTERNET
• The Telegraph
• Invented in the 1840s.
• Signals sent over wires that were established
over vast distances
• Used extensively by the U.S. Government
during the American Civil War, 1861 - 1865
• Morse Code was dots and dashes, or short
signals and long signals
• The electronic signal standard of +/- 15 v. is
still used in network interface cards today.
WHAT IS THE INTERNET
• 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.
• 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 offi ce to anywhere in the world.
WHAT IS THE
INTERNET
• The largest network of
networks in the world.
• Uses TCP/IP protocols and
packet switching .
• Runs on any
communications substrate.
BRIEF HISTORY OF THE
INTERNET
• 1968 - DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
contracts with BBN (Bolt, Beranek & Newman) to create ARPAnet
• 1970 - First five nodes:
– UCLA
– Stanford
– UC Santa Barbara
– U of Utah, and
– BBN
5,385,798,40
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• - https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
WORLDS BIGGES CONTRIBUTOR
IN USERS
PHILIPPINE
S INTERNET
USERS • 49.8% of the
population
• Philippine population is
about 110,000,000+
TOTAL NUMBER OF
SITES
1.98 billion
websites
- google.com
(2023)
INTERNET PROVIDES
• Connectivity
• Learning and Information
• Anonymity
• Faster Transactions
• Collaboration
• Online Selling
• Entertainment
• Internet of Things
ITS NOT ALL GOOD IN THE
HOOD...
• Internet addiction • Never being able to disconnect
• Causes distraction from work
TYPES OF NIC