The Internet
Everyone of us know the Internet, most of us use the Internet and some few individuals use it every day and every night, because they are addicted to the Internet. We live in the 21th Century and the Internet is fixed part of today’s world, of our lifes. Hardly anybody can avoid the Internet in advanced countries, because the Internet is almost everywhere. If you want, you can connect to the Internet in hotels, libraries or restaurants. The Internet is so famous, important and useful, because you can find almost everything what do you need or what do you want. There are a lot of information from the whole world, from different places on the Earth, in different languages – now days about 5 million terabytes information.
What is The Internet
Many people know what they can do on the Internet, what they can find on the Internet and how they can use it, but do all of users of the Internet really what is it? More likely no, maybe because they don’t need to know it, especially elderly people are glad that they understand how to use the Internet, how they should find informations, which they wanted.
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 connect easily through ordinary personal computers, exchange electronic mail with friends or chat with them, access multimedia information that includes music, images, video and so on.
An additional attribute of the Internet is that it lacks a central authority. Beyond the various governing boards that work to establish policies and standards, the Internet is bound by few rules and answers to no single organization.
The History of The Internet
The Internet began as ARPAnet, a U.S. Department of Defense project to create a nationwide computer network that would continue to function even if a large portion of it were destroyed in a nuclear war or natural disaster.
First sentence “Are you receiving this?” was sent in 1969 from University of California in Los Angeles by network of four nodes: UCLA, Stanford Research Institute, UC Santa Barbara University of Utah – that formed ARPAnet. The Network that developed was used first only by the government, academic institutions and scientists for research and communications.
In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee thought up new way of communication – hypertext documents. Texts that contains links on another documents that can be situated anywhere in the world. Today we know this as World Wide Web .
World Wide Web Development
Today, the Internet isn’t only about general web pages with texts and hypertext links. Today is the Internet full of interestings pages, no only for their content, but for their look. Programming web sites aren’t limitation on possibilities of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), because there are new technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Shockwave, better browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Konqueror and better Internet Connections. That is why web pages will be improved by web designers and web coders. Who knows how will be web pages look in 20 or 50 years?
Connection Options
Until recently, the two primary methods of accessing the Internet were through a network connection, allowing users of local area networks (LANs) to go online through their school or workplace systems, and dial-up connections through a modem and phone line. However, new connection options allow for greater speeds and flexibility, while keeping costs to a minimum.
Some of the newer connection options are Cable Internet, Satellite connections, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), Wireless connections and WebTV.
The Future of The Internet
Be sure, the Internet is and will be important part of our lifes. I think, in the future the Internet will be more and more useful and important. Everything will be on it.