The Internet

Stuff this page we'll be covering:

 

What Is The Internet?	Internet and Intranet
Using the net for E-mail	Newsgroups
File Transfer via FTP	Searching the Web
Web Rings	Browser Commands And Menus
Ip Addresses and Domains	ISP's
The History

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What is the Internet?

    What is the Internet? Well the Internet is an electronic communication network, that connects computer networks and organizational computer facilities around the world.

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The Intranet

    Intranet: 1) A computer network connecting on affiliated set of clients using standard        internet esp. TCP/IP and HTTP. 2) An IP-based network of  nodes behind a firewall, or behind several firewalls connected by secure, possibly virtual, networks. To find out what the Internet is click Here

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FREE E-MAIL

    Our Group found  some free e-mail sites on the web. Here are all the sites (remember that these are not all the sites.)  Hotmail, Excite, Yahoo, AltaVista, The Globe. You may also get e-mail from your Internet provider. E-mail is electronic mail which you can send over the network to anyone. (Aslong as you know their address) You may also send files (pics, text, zip's and any other files) with your E-mail.

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NewsGroups

     Newsgoups are an Electronic Bulletin Board on the Internet that's devoted to a particular topic.

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Searching The Web

    Searching the Internet is very easy now since there are many search engines. Here's how to search the web:
1) Goto one of the many search engines. (Yahoo, Excite, Infoseek, Altavista, Webcrawler, Goto, Hotbot there are still many more search engines out there.)
2) You can also click the "SEARCH" button on your browser.
3) Click it the edit box and type in what you are looking for then click search or goto or what ever the little button says
4) a list of sites will come up. Look threw them, If you don't find what your looking for or nothing comes up repeat step 3.
 
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WEB RINGS

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BROWSER COMMANDS AND MENUS

How To Personalize Your Browser

•    Goto preferences to personalize some things
•    You can change home page location
•    You can change how long until history expires
•    You can download programs, games for satisfaction
•    You can goto your E-Mail account
•    You can download Anti-Virus programs
•    Your browser can be set up to download updates for programs

IP Addresses and Domains

•     IP address is the # code that allows you access onto internet
•     IP address are stored in the hard drive of your computer
•     They automatically dial in every time you go on the internet
•     Static  IP - Uses the same # each time you log on
•     Dynamic Ip - A # is assigned from a pool thus you get a new # every time you log on
•      IP stands for Internet Protocol
•      IP Domain is the wording of the address ex. www.Domainname.com

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ISP's

•     ISP stands for Internet Service Provider
•     Provides Ip address and domains to normal common people & Businesses
•     Give Internet access to people & keeps track of payment & time allowed on the Net

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File Transfer via FTP

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The History

The History Of The Internet

 1962-68
   Packet Switching (PS) networks were developed
 Relevance?
   Internet relies on Packets to transfer data
   Origin from Military - Security for transfer of information
   Data split into tiny separate packets - Each can take a different route to destination, therefore making it hard to eavesdrop on messages.  More than one route available.  Networks can withstand large scale destruction by taking another
  route to destination.  ie. Nuclear attack

 1969
   Birth of Internet
   ARPAnet (Advance Research Projects Agency) commissioned by the U.S. DoD for research into networking
 Relevance?
   The first node (Node: a host machine on the network, a dial in line on a BBS) at UCLA closely followed by nodes at Stanford Research Institute, UCSB (Santa Barbra), and the University of Utah (Four nodes)

 1971
   15 nodes (23 hosts) on ARPAnet
   E-mail invented - a program that sends messages across a distributed network
       - Still main way of inter-person communications today

 1972
   First public demonstration of ARPAnet - Done between 40 machines

 1973
   Global networking becomes a reality
   The first international connections to ARPAnet
  - Between the University College of London and the Royal Radar Establishment in Norway
   Internet ideas started

 1974
   Packets become mode of transfer
   Telenet, commercial vision of ARPAnet, opened first public packet data service

 1976
   Queen Elizabeth II sends an e-mail
   UUCP (Unix-To-Unix CoPy) developed at AT&T Bell labs and distributed with Unix
 Relevance?
   Unix was and still is the main operating systems for universities and research establishments
   One could now "talk" over a network
   Network exposed to world wide users

 1977
   E-mail takes off and Internet becomes reality
   Number of hosts breaks 100
   Theorynet provides electronic mail (e-mail) to 100+ researchers in computer science
   Mail specifications are made

 1979
   News groups are born
 Relevance?
   USENET still thrives today.
   Three news groups established by the end of the year (Today almost any topic has a discussion group)

 1981
   BITNET (Because It's Time Network) started as a co-operative network at City University of New York, first connection to Yale
   Provides electronic mail and listserv servers distribute into as well as file transfers
  listserv - automatic mailing list server

 1982
   EUnet (European Unix Network) created by EUUG to provide e-mail and USENET services

 1983
   Name server (addresses) developed

 1984
   Number of hosts breaks 1,000
   Domain name server introduced (DNS)
   Instead of the number identifier it was easier to remember the "www.blank.com"

 1986
   5,000 hosts, 241 news groups

 1987
   Commercialization ‘Internet born'
   28,000 hosts

 1989
   Number of hosts breaks 100,000
   First relay between a commercial electronic mail carrier and the Internet

 1990
   300,000 hosts, 1,000 news groups
   ARPAnet ceased to exist
   World comes on line (world.std.com) becoming the first commercial provider of Internet dial up access

 1991
   Internet becomes user friendly, most important development to date
   Easy access to any form of information anywhere in the world

 1992
   Number of hosts breaks 1 million and 400,000 news groups
   The term ‘Surfing The Internet' coined by Jean Armour Polly
   First MBONE audio multi cast done in March and video multi cast done in November

 1993
   2 million hosts, 600 web-sites
   U.N. and U.S. White House go on line
   Mosaic takes Internet by storm
 Relevance?
   Develops into Netscape which is now the most popular WWW browser to date
   WWW has 341,634 sites to date

 1994
   3 million hosts, 10 thousand WWW sites, and 10 thousand news groups
   ARPAnet/Internet celebrate their 25th Anniversary
    Local communities begin to wire up directly to Internet
   Shopping malls and banks arrive on Internet
  - First virtual, first cyberbank, opened for business
  - You can now order Pizza over the Internet

 1995
   6.5 million hosts, 100,000 web-sites
 
 1996
   Microsoft enters
   12.8 million hosts, 500,000 web-sites
   Internet phones catch attention of U.S. communication companies who then ask the U.S. Congress to ban the technology
   WWW Wars begin.  Primarily between Microsoft and Netscape

 1997
   19.5 million hosts, 1 million web-sites, and 71,618 news groups

 2000
   What Next?

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