Internet

Internet - Today, the Internet (A world wide network that allows anyone to send and receive information all over the world) is allowing universities across America, international businesses, and individuals to collaborate with people across town and half way around the globe. As a result of the Internet, people can buy and sell things, learn, and communicate with others. Tomorrow, people will be able to do all of the things they can now, and so much more. The Internet was created in the 1960s by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in order to allow a few select universities in the U.S and the DOD (Department of Defense) to interact with each other over long distances. Over a very short time, approximately ten years, the Internet went from being a little idea to being a multi-million dollar system. During the 1970s as more universities and institutions used the Internet, it became necessary to create data transmission standards. The two standards that were developed were TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IP (Internet Protocol). In 1989 English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee introduced the idea of the WWW (World Wide Web). Businesses use the Internet to carry out e-commerce (electronic commerce) such as advertising, selling, and buying. Since 1989 the internet has been the most rapidly diffusing innovation of the internet in the history of humankind. By mid-2001, an estimated 400 million individuals were using the internet, and the rate of diffusion worldwide was increasing rapidly, especially in Asian nations. Home users use the Internet for both work, and educational research. Adults also use the Internet to communicate to their offices from their homes. Children in the homes use the Internet to talk with their friends, and to play games.