What is the History of Internet? What are the different services provided by
the Internet?
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History of the Internet
The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts to build and interconnect computer networks that arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
Internet Services.
Communication Services. There are various Communication Services available that offer exchange of information with individuals or groups. ...
Information Retrieval Services. ...
Web Services. ...
World Wide Web (WWW) ...
Video Conferencing.
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The Internet is a vast network that connects computers all over the world. Through the Internet, people can share information and communicate from anywhere with an Internet connection.
History of Internet:
- The Internet started off with research into what was then known as packet switching as early as the 1960s.
- Packet switching was thought of a better and faster method to transfer data than the hardware solution to the problem, i.e., the circuitry.
- The packet switching technology was essential to the development of ARPANET by the United States Military. ARPANET is considered the first known group of interconnected computers aka the internet.
- This system was used to transfer confidential data between the Military.
- This data sharing technology was then opened to educational institutes in the United States to allow them to access to the government’s supercomputer, first at 56 kbit/s, then at 1.5 Mbit/s, and then at 45 Mbit/s.
- Commercial Internet service providers began to arise in the late 1980s and the internet was fully commercialized in the US by 1995.
Different Services of Internet:
Internet provide many services these services are used for business, download files, interactions, marketing, etc. The services Provided by Internet are:
- Web Services
- Communication Services
- World Wide web
- Video conferencing
- Electronic Mail
- Chat Rooms
- News group-this allow debate on various issues.This is similar to e-mail.
- FTP(file transfer protocol-this is the only way to transfer large files)
- Video/Voice communication like Skype
- Social networking sites
- Wikipedia ( for quality information)
Internet provide many benefits to our life that is: Improve our knowledge, Skill and learning capacity , Banking , Billing , Address mapping, etc.
So these are the great uses of internet to us..
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