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Apranet
Arpanet was the first network that became the basis of the internet. It was founded by a US military source and consisted of a number of individual computers connected by leased lines and using a packet switching scheme. Arpanet stands for the advanced research projects agency. -
newsgroups, bulletin boards
Newsgroups or sometimes called bulletin boards or forums, these are places where learners can read and post messages, download or upload files. As they are not live or “real time”, posted messages remain for others to look at later. In newsgroups users can also post files including computer programs, illustrations, pictures and stories. -
email
Emails are basically and electronic mail of the traditional mail and you use it by sending it via the internet to the person or system you want to send it to, it can be used to send text, pictures and any kind of files that you want to send. The first thing that you need to use email is that you need to have an email address for example you could have example@hotmail.com when you have an email address you can then start to send mails. -
VOIP
VOIP stands for Voice over Internet Protocol. It is also referred to as IP telephony or Internet telephony. Such as the Internet. Other terms commonly associated with VoIP are IP telephony, Internet telephony, voice over broadband (VOBB), broadband telephony, IP communications, and broadband phone. -
international packet switched service
The International Packet Switched Service (IPSS) was created in 1978 by collaboration between the United Kingdom's General Post Office, Western Union International and the United States' Tymnet. This network grew from Europe and the USA to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981, and by the 1990s it provided a worldwide networking infrastructure. -
TCP/IP protocol
TCP and IP were developed by a Department of Defence research project to connect a number different networks designed by different vendors into a network of networks. It was initially successful because it delivered a few basic services that everyone needs across a very large number of client and server systems. Several computers in a small department can use TCP/IP on a single LAN. The IP component provides routing from the department to the enterprise network, then to regional networks. -
domain name addressing system
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities. Most prominently it translates easily memorized domain names to the numerical IP addresses needed for the purpose of locating computer services and devices worldwide. By providing a worldwide,distributed keyword-based redirection service. -
national science foundation
The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) beginning in 1985 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States. -
there were 10,000 systems using the internet
in 1987 there were about 10,000 sytems using the internet. -
the first webcasting
in 1989 the first ever web casting was used this was a big step forward for the internet -
both the first commercial dialup and the first search engines
The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The original intent of the name was "archives," but it was shortened to Archie. Archie helped solve this data scatter problem by combining a script-based data gatherer with a regular expression matcher for retrieving file names matching a user query. Essentially Archie became a database of web filenames which it would match with the user’s queries. -
world wide web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks. -
both the first widely used browser and censorship
The first widely used web browser was NCSA Mosaic. The Mosaic programming team then created the first commercial web browser called Netscape Navigator, later renamed Communicator, then renamed back to just Netscape. The Netscape browser led in user share until Microsoft Internet Explorer took the lead in 1999 due to its distribution advantage. -
blogs
Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject. More recently multi-author blogs have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. -
work ‘internet’ in daily use
1996 usage of the word Internet had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its use as a synecdoche in reference to the World Wide Web over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks. -
10 million systems users
In 1997 there was 10 million system users that were using the internet this was a big step forward for the internet -
dotcom bubble burst
It was a stock market bubble that popped to near-devastating effects in 2001it started when people started to buy stuff online instead of going to shops to buy what they want this made prices to fall and the companies to lose money and latter forced them into folding or learning a valuable lesson. -
Recant trends
many things have come form the internet for example facebook a online social networking service, it was co-founded by an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur called mark zuckerberg, facebook lets you talk to your friends get the lattest gossip and it also lets you play games on it it currentally have over one billion active users.
