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6 Internet and E-mail
Your Aim
to learn about:
The Internet World Wide Web
How the Web Works? Using Web Browser
Using URLs E-mail
Emoticons, Acronyms and Netiquettes
The Internet is a global network of connected computers and devices that share
information with each other. It allows people to communicate, access websites,
send emails, and use online services from anywhere in the world.
Today, the Internet connects thousands of networks and millions of users around
the world. It is a huge, cooperative community with no central ownership.
THE INTERNET
The seed of the Internet was planted Clickipedia
in 1969, when the Advanced Research
Projects Agency (ARPA) of the United The World Wide Web was created
States Department of Defense began by British computer scientist Tim
connecting computers at different Berners-Lee during his time at CERN.
universities and defense contractors. The He was driven by the challenge of
resulting network was called ARPANET. managing, updating, and locating
Initially, the network included four documents and data files within the
primary host computers. ARPANET went vast and dynamic organisation, as
live with its first four nodes at UCLA well as sharing them with external
(University of California, Los Angeles), collaborators.
Stanford Research Institute (SRI), UCSB
(University of California, Santa Barbara), and the University of Utah.
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