Internet
Internet is a global connecting
millions of computers
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It is a network of networks.
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It is the name for a vast, worldwide system
consisting of people, Information and computers.
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It is an unlimited commercial opportunity.
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It cyber space where data surfing can be done.
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It is an ocean of information.
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It is a worldwide interconnected system of
thousands of computer’s together.
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Growth of internet.
The internet started in a U.S Government
project in the year 1960s called the ARPANET after the Advanced Research
projects agency which supervised it in the beginning. The ARPANET reached universities,
research laboratories and some military labs.
In the late 1980s the National
Science Foundation of U.S funded the development of a network, named NSFNET to
connect super computer centers in the US. Many College and universities are encouraged
to connect to that network. This large worldwide collection of networks and
computer systems communicating according to the same protocols has to be what
is called the internet.
In 1990 ARPANET was dismantled, and
the public network in US was turned over to NSFNET. In early the 1990s,
Commercial networks with their own internet exchange or gateway were allowed to
conduct business on the internet and in 1993 the NSF created the inter NIC to
provide Internet Services.
3.
Owner of Internet
No one person, company, institute,
or government organization owns the Internet. No one source foots the bill for
it. No one entity governs it, or even has a controlling interest. The Internet
is truly a collaborative, collective enterprise.
There are a handful of organizations
that are truly influential and that taken together from a sort of
checks-and-balances system:
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets the standard
from HTML and other specifies of the Web.
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The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
focuses on the evolution of the internet with specific eye towards keeping the
internet running smoothly as a whole.
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The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG)
is a related organization responsible for managing IETF activities and the
Internet standards process.
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The Internet Architectures Board (IAB) is
responsible for responsible for defining the overall architecture of the
Internet (The backbone and all the networks attached to it), providing guidance
and board direction to the IETF.
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The Internet Society (ISOC) is a supervisory organization
made up of individuals, Corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies
from the internet community. The group comments on internet policies and
practices and oversees a number of other boards and task force including the
IAB and IESG dealing with internet policy issues.
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The Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA)
and the internet Network Information Centre (InterNIC) lead the organization
responsible for assigning IP addresses and domain names, respectively.
