Please explain the Internet to me.?

Question

Um, Shane Wolf, that is not what I meant.

Answer 1

The internet is an amazing web of electronic signals which allows us to communicate all over the world in mere seconds...so the stupidity ratio is immensely higher even than TV, which is, at least, programmed.

The GOOD side of that is, it rarely works well for long.

Answer 2

As the Cold War between the West and the former Soviet Union intensified in the 1960s, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recognized the need to establish communications links between major U.S. military installations. The primary motivation was to maintain communications if a nuclear war resulted in the mass destruction and breakdown of traditional communications channels. Major universities, such as the University of California and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), were also involved in networking projects.

The DoD funded research sites throughout the United States. In 1968, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) contracted with Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc. (BBN) to build a network. This network was based on the packet switching technology that was developed for better transmission of computer data.

The Growth Begins in the 1970s

When the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) project began, no one anticipated that the network would grow to the extent that it did. Throughout the 1970s, more nodes or access points were added both domestically and abroad.

More is Better in the 1980s

In 1983, the ARPANET was split. The Military Network (MILNET), which was integrated with the Defense Data Network (DDN), took 68 of the 113 existing nodes. The DDN had been created in 1982.

The Domain Name System (DNS) was introduced in 1984. This system provided a way to map friendly host names to IP addresses. It was much more efficient and convenient than previous methods. These methods are discussed in Module 9, Advanced Hardware Fundamentals for Servers. In 1984, more than 1,000 host computers were on the network.

During the last half of the 1980s, networking increased considerably. For example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) created supercomputer centers in the United States at Princeton, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and Cornell University. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) was also created during this time. By 1987, there were 10,000 hosts on the network. By 1989, that number increased to over 100,000.

The Net Becomes Big Business in the 1990s

The phenomenal growth rate of the 1980s was nothing compared to what came in the 1990s. ARPANET evolved into the Internet, while the U.S. government became involved in pushing the development of the so-called information superhighway. The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) backbone was upgraded to T3 speed, 44.736 MBps. In 1991, it sent more than 1 trillion bytes per month. In 1992, the Internet Society (ISOC) was formed and more than 1 million hosts existed on the Internet.

The 1990s saw the explosion of commerce on the Internet. As more and more college students, faculty, individual home users, and companies of all sizes became connected, the business world recognized the opportunity to reach a large and expanding affluent market. By 1995, online advertising became prominent, online banking had arrived, and even a pizza could be ordered over the Internet.

The last five years of the century ushered in new major developments on an almost daily basis. Streaming audio and video, "push" technologies, and Java and ActiveX scripting took advantage of higher performance connectivity that was available at lower and lower prices. Domain names became big business and particularly desirable names have sold for upwards of one million U.S. dollars. Currently there are millions of sites that exist on the Word Wide Web, and millions of host computers participate in this great linking. Figure shows a time line of significant events in PC networking history. The graph in Figure shows the growth of the Internet.

The tremendous growth in the computer industry means exciting job possibilities. According to projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, eight of the ten fastest-growing occupations will be computer-related. This means that the number of jobs for IT technicians and computer support personnel will almost double by the year 2010.

Answer 3

Internet is a place where you can find everything you want to. You can find friends by chatting, you can find the answers to your questions by asking on a forum or you can just listen to music on a common music channel. Internet is all this and more. So little , "staying there in your computer" but so fast that can connect two people from different continents in some miliseconds or less. All you have to do is discover it piece by piece.

Answer 4

Think of the INTERNET as the INTERconnection of 2 or more computers on a NETwork.

Computers carry their own names called IP Addresses. When you look up a website, your computer looks up the IP Address of that website and connects with it. Thus sharing with you what that computer has Served out for you to see.

In order for computers to connect one must be the Server, or the one that has the information and the other (you) the Seeker of information.

There are thousands of Servers out there. Many make money by storing (hosting) websites on their hard drives. There are millions of Seekers who explore the different files hosted throught servers.

So, once you connect to your Internet Provider (who is also a server), you are linked to the rest of websites and IP Addresses that are Serving you Information.

Answer 5

It's a series of tubes - Senator Ted Stevens R-Alaska

Answer 6

Ask Al Gore

Answer 7

I'm sorry, but cats just don't understand the internet. Take a nap or have a bowl of milk.

Answer 8

an international computer network
providing e- mail and information
from computer and educational
institutions, government,agencies,
and industry , accessible to the
general public via modem links.

Answer 9

internet is something you can connect many computer together to see Yahoo Answers and speak with many people :)

Answer 10

the internet is were you can get info on anything you want
youcan even get tickets for movies,airlines
you can learn alot on line