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Created on 2001-12-08 21:16:52 (#410046), last updated 2008-02-02
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Basic Info| Name: | Philski |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1984-03-24 |
| Location: | Southampton, England, United Kingdom |
| Website: | what is the internet |
Contact:
yocoach29@hotmail.com BioInternet
(Note: capital "I"). The Internet is the largest
internet (with a small "i") in the world. It is a three
level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level
networks, and stub networks. These include commercial
(.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research
networks (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span
many different physical networks around the world with various
protocols, chiefly the Internet Protocol.
Until the advent of the World-Wide Web in 1990, the Internet
was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate
research departments and was accessed mostly via command
line interfaces such as telnet and FTP. Since then it
has grown to become an almost-ubiquitous aspect of modern
information systems, becoming highly commercial and a widely
accepted medium for all sort of customer relations such as
advertising, brand building, and online sales and services.
Its original spirit of cooperation and freedom have, to a
great extent, survived this explosive transformation with the
result that the vast majority of information available on the
Internet is free of charge.
While the web (primarily in the form of HTML and HTTP) is
the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other
protocols in use, supporting applications such as
electronic mail, Usenet, chat, remote login, and file
transfer.
There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with
InterNIC in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994.
In 1996 there were over 100 Internet access providers in the
US and a few in the UK (e.g. the BBC Networking Club,
Demon, PIPEX).
There are several bodies associated with the running of the
Internet, including the Internet Architecture Board, the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the Internet
Engineering and Planning Group, Internet Engineering
Steering Group, and the Internet Society.
Internet
n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated
beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense
research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal
was to develop a network architecture for military
command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and
including nuclear war, this is a myth; in fact, ARPANET was
conceived from the start as a way to get most economical use out of
then-scarce large-computer resources.
As originally imagined, ARPANET's major use would have been to
support what is now called remote login and more sophisticated forms
of distributed computing, but the infant technology of electronic
mail quickly grew to dominate actual usage. Universities, research
labs and defense contractors early discovered the Internet's
potential as a medium of communication between _humans_ and linked
up in steadily increasing numbers, connecting together a quirky mix
of academics, techies, hippies, SF fans, hackers, and anarchists.
The roots of this lexicon lie in those early years.
Over the next quarter-century the Internet evolved in many ways.
The typical machine/OS combination moved from DEC PDP-10s and
PDP-20s, running TOPS-10 and TOPS-20, to PDP-11s and VAXes and
Suns running Unix, and in the 1990s to Unix on Intel
microcomputers. The Internet's protocols grew more capable, most
notably in the move from NCP/IP to TCP/IP in 1982 and the
implementation of Domain Name Service in 1983. It was around this
time that people began referring to the collection of interconnected
networks with ARPANET at its core as "the Internet".
The ARPANET had a fairly strict set of participation guidelines -
connected institutions had to be involved with a DOD-related
research project. By the mid-80s, many of the organizations
clamoring to join didn't fit this profile. In 1986, the National
Science Foundation built NSFnet to open up access to its five
regional supercomputing centers; NSFnet became the backbone of the
Internet, replacing the original ARPANET pipes (which were formally
shut down in 1990). Between 1990 and late 1994 the pieces of NSFnet
were sold to major telecommunications companies until the Internet
backbone had gone completely commercial.
That year, 1994, was also the year the mainstream culture
discovered the Internet. Once again, the killer app was not the
anticipated one - rather, what caught the public imagination was the
hypertext and multimedia features of the World Wide Web.
Subsequently the Internet has seen off its only serious challenger
(the OSI protocol stack favored by European telecom monopolies) and
is in the process of absorbing into itself many of the proprietary
networks built during the second wave of wide-area networking after
1980. It is now (1996) a commonplace even in mainstream media to
predict that a globally-extended Internet will become the key
unifying communications technology of the next century. See also
the network and Internet address.
internet (with a small "i") in the world. It is a three
level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level
networks, and stub networks. These include commercial
(.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research
networks (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks and span
many different physical networks around the world with various
protocols, chiefly the Internet Protocol.
Until the advent of the World-Wide Web in 1990, the Internet
was almost entirely unknown outside universities and corporate
research departments and was accessed mostly via command
line interfaces such as telnet and FTP. Since then it
has grown to become an almost-ubiquitous aspect of modern
information systems, becoming highly commercial and a widely
accepted medium for all sort of customer relations such as
advertising, brand building, and online sales and services.
Its original spirit of cooperation and freedom have, to a
great extent, survived this explosive transformation with the
result that the vast majority of information available on the
Internet is free of charge.
While the web (primarily in the form of HTML and HTTP) is
the best known aspect of the Internet, there are many other
protocols in use, supporting applications such as
electronic mail, Usenet, chat, remote login, and file
transfer.
There were 20,242 unique commercial domains registered with
InterNIC in September 1994, 10% more than in August 1994.
In 1996 there were over 100 Internet access providers in the
US and a few in the UK (e.g. the BBC Networking Club,
Demon, PIPEX).
There are several bodies associated with the running of the
Internet, including the Internet Architecture Board, the
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, the Internet
Engineering and Planning Group, Internet Engineering
Steering Group, and the Internet Society.
Internet
n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated
beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.S. Department of Defense
research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal
was to develop a network architecture for military
command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and
including nuclear war, this is a myth; in fact, ARPANET was
conceived from the start as a way to get most economical use out of
then-scarce large-computer resources.
As originally imagined, ARPANET's major use would have been to
support what is now called remote login and more sophisticated forms
of distributed computing, but the infant technology of electronic
mail quickly grew to dominate actual usage. Universities, research
labs and defense contractors early discovered the Internet's
potential as a medium of communication between _humans_ and linked
up in steadily increasing numbers, connecting together a quirky mix
of academics, techies, hippies, SF fans, hackers, and anarchists.
The roots of this lexicon lie in those early years.
Over the next quarter-century the Internet evolved in many ways.
The typical machine/OS combination moved from DEC PDP-10s and
PDP-20s, running TOPS-10 and TOPS-20, to PDP-11s and VAXes and
Suns running Unix, and in the 1990s to Unix on Intel
microcomputers. The Internet's protocols grew more capable, most
notably in the move from NCP/IP to TCP/IP in 1982 and the
implementation of Domain Name Service in 1983. It was around this
time that people began referring to the collection of interconnected
networks with ARPANET at its core as "the Internet".
The ARPANET had a fairly strict set of participation guidelines -
connected institutions had to be involved with a DOD-related
research project. By the mid-80s, many of the organizations
clamoring to join didn't fit this profile. In 1986, the National
Science Foundation built NSFnet to open up access to its five
regional supercomputing centers; NSFnet became the backbone of the
Internet, replacing the original ARPANET pipes (which were formally
shut down in 1990). Between 1990 and late 1994 the pieces of NSFnet
were sold to major telecommunications companies until the Internet
backbone had gone completely commercial.
That year, 1994, was also the year the mainstream culture
discovered the Internet. Once again, the killer app was not the
anticipated one - rather, what caught the public imagination was the
hypertext and multimedia features of the World Wide Web.
Subsequently the Internet has seen off its only serious challenger
(the OSI protocol stack favored by European telecom monopolies) and
is in the process of absorbing into itself many of the proprietary
networks built during the second wave of wide-area networking after
1980. It is now (1996) a commonplace even in mainstream media to
predict that a globally-extended Internet will become the key
unifying communications technology of the next century. See also
the network and Internet address.
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