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THE INTERNET

How does the Internet Work?
  * The Internet is a worldwide collection of computer networks, cooperating with each other to exchange data using a common software standard. Through telephone wires and satellite links, Internet users can share information in a variety of forms.
  * The size, scope and design of the Internet allows users to:
  * Allows easily through ordinary personal computers and local phone numbers;
  * Exchange electronic mail (E-mail) with friends and colleagues with accounts on the Internet;
  * Post information for others to access, and update it frequently;
  * Access multimedia information that includes sound, photographic images and even video; and
  * Access diverse perspectives from around the world.
(Stilton, 1997)
Internet History
  * The conceptual foundation for creation of the Internet was largely created by three individuals and a research conference, each of which changed the way we thought about technology by accurately predicting its future:
  * Vannevar Bush - wrote the first visionary description of the potential uses for information technology with his description of the "memex" automated library system.
  * The theoretical father of the Web
  * Norbert Wiener - invented the field of Cybernetics, inspiring future researchers to focus on the use of technology to extend human capabilities.
  * Marshall McLuhan -   made the idea of a global village interconnected by an electronic nervous system part of our popular culture.
  * The 1956 Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence conference - crystallized the concept that technology was improving at an exponential rate, and provided the first serious consideration of the consequences.
(Styne, 1998)
What is the Internet?
  * The Internet   is the world’s largest computer spanning nearly of the entire globe.
  * Used by people worldwide, the Internet is used to describe the global system of interconnected networks as these are of computers of... [continues]

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