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                          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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