Internet & its History

If you are to ask me about the well-known internet nowadays, what I know about it is that it involves communications network. There are lots of brief histories about the internet. From the definition to the usage. The Internet is a global data communications system. It is a hardware and software infrastructure that provides connectivity between computers. The term the Internet, when referring to the Internet has traditionally been treated as a proper noun and written with an initial capital letter. There is a trend to regard it as a generic term or common noun and thus write it as "the internet", without the capital.

Nowadays, internet has many usages. One of which is the use of e-mails. The concept of sending electronic text messages between parties in a way analogous to mailing letters or memos predates the creation of the Internet. Even today it can be important to distinguish between Internet and internal e-mail systems. Internet e-mail may travel and be stored unencrypted on many other networks and machines out of both the sender's and the recipient's control. Today you can send pictures and attach files on e-mail. Most e-mail servers today also feature the ability to send e-mail to multiple e-mail addresses. Another usage is the so-called www or World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a huge set of interlinked documents, images and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs. These hyperlinks and URLs allow the web servers and other machines that store originals, and cached copies of, these resources to deliver them as required using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). HTTP is only one of the communication protocols used on the Internet. Lastly is the remote access. The Internet allows computer users to connect to other computers and information stores easily, wherever they may be across the world. They may do this with or without the use of security, authentication and encryption technologies, depending on the requirements.

As it speeds into the future, there would be a great impact in our society nowadays. I think it would create implications in our society. Internet is part of the technology which has always been the main determinant of economic superiority. Internet had now made it possible to reach into the secrets of technology through a global network. Before, researchers go to the huge libraries with hundreds, or thousands rather of books to research. But now, whole encyclopedias and even the books in the libraries are now available on the Internet. Slowly, all forms of human knowledge will be only a mouse-click away. Any individual, organization or country having the resources can adopt the knowledge for social use. Though it will take quite sometime for all developing nations to reach the technology levels of developed ones, Internet will surely speed up the process of leveling up. Eventually, the whole human race will enjoy the benefits of all technologies available in the world. And it is such an advantage for us these days. But if you would scrutinize it very well, human race, specially the kids, would be more dependent on the internet rather than to use their own knowledge. So people should also be aware of it.

Asking how the Internet works is not the same as asking how the world wide web works. Well, Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same, although they are often used as synonyms. While the Internet is an infrastructure providing interconnectivity between network computers, the web is one of the services of the Internet. It is a collection of documents that can be shared across Internet-enabled computers.