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            History of the internet  

 Technology advanced because of The people’s need for convenience. From farm and mills, industries to home appliances and personal gadgets, the technological development is very much noticeable. 

 The Internet has revolutionized the computer and communications world like nothing before. The invention of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and computer set the stage for this unprecedented integration of capabilities. The Internet is at once a world-wide broadcasting capability, a mechanism for information dissemination, and a medium for collaboration and interaction between individuals and their computers without regard for geographic location.

ARPANET- The Advanced Research Projects  Agency Network was the first wide-area packet-switching network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite.

WWW- The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://example.com/ ), which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet.

The web uses the client- server concepts.

-CLIENT- is a software program of computer thay requests information from another software program on another computer.

-SERVER- is a software program that interacts with client software in a client- server environment.

Some of common terms associated with internet

Browser

A piece of software such as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer that allows a computer to access and display documents, view pictures, hear sound, and view video clips from the World Wide Web.

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E-mail

Mail that's electronically transmitted by your computer. As opposed to snail mail, e-mail sends your messages instantaneously, anywhere in the world. It has the capability to send messages at any time and to anyone.

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

The standard method for downloading and uploading files over the Internet. With FTP, you can login to a server and transfer files (meaning you can "send" or "receive" files).

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Homepage

The first page that is viewed when the browser starts. It is also the page of a Web site that provides the introduction or content with links.

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

The abbreviation for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is the set of rules by which Web pages are transferred across the Internet.

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Internet Protocol (IP) Address

The Internet is composed of local, regional, national, and worldwide computer networks. Each computer on the Internet can be identified by a set of unique numbers that is called an internet protocol (IP) address. The IP address is composed of four different numbers separated 

by periods such as 205.134.120.60.