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6 USES OF THE INTERNET

Your Aim

6.1 History of Internet 6.5 Downloading File from Google Drive
6.2 Internet and Intranet 6.6 Uploading File to Google Drive
6.3 Requirement of Internet 6.7 Website Blogging
6.4 Application of Internet

We live in the age of the Internet. It has become popular and an important part of our life.

The Internet was not invented overnight; it took a lot of time to work in this world. The
Internet is the integrated work of many scientists, programmers, engineers, etc.

6.1 HISTORY OF INTERNET

ARPANET stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, an experimental
computer network that was the forerunner of the Internet. The Advanced Research
Projects Agency (ARPA), part of the USA army provided the funding for the development
of ARPANET in the late 1960s.

1981: The National Science Foundation received a grant to establish the network among
university campuses.
1990: Tim Berners-Lee developed HyperText Markup Language (HTML).

1991: The European Council for Nuclear Research introduces the World Wide Web to the
public domain.

1992: The first multimedia (audio and video) files were distributed over the Internet. The
phrase "surfing the Internet" became popular.
2016: Google introduce Google Assistant, voice-based personal assistant software. Google
introduce Amazon's Alexa, Siri from Apple, and Cortana from Microsoft.

6.2 INTERNET AND INTRANET

Internet
The Internet is a global network that connects various computer networks. It is a public
network that anyone can access. On the internet, there are multiple users and it provides

an unlimited information to the users through sharing.

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