Internet
Internet The Internet is a network of networks – a global communications system that links together thousands of individual networks.
The Internet’s History 1969: ARPA of the US department of Defense began – connecting computers at different universities and defense contactors. The network called ARPANET 1973: The network connected to Europe 1980: Another govt agency NFS joined the project 1990: ARPANET shut down 1995: NFS net discontinued & Commercial Internet backbone services replaced them
The Internet’s Major Services The World Wide Web Electronic Mail News File Transfer Protocol Chat Instant Messaging Online Services Per-to-Peer Services
World Wide Web (WWW) An Internet service developed to incorporate footnotes, figures, and cross-references into online hypertext documents.
Electronic Mail (E-Mail) A system for exchanging written, voice, and video messages through a computer network.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) A set of rules that dictates the format in which data is sent from one computer to another computer.
Hypertext Web documents can be linked together because they are created a format known as Hypertext. Hypertext systems provide an easy way to manage large collections of data , which can include text files, pictures, sounds, movies, and more.
HTTP To support hypertext documents, the web uses a special protocol, called the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
HTML Hypertext Markup Language(HTML): A page–description language used on the World Wide Web that defines the hypertext links between documents
Web Site A collection of related Web pages is called a Web site.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator The hypertext transfer protocol uses Internet address in a special format, called a URL. http://www.Bangladesh.com
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