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Exploring the Internet

as a Productive Tool
Lesson 1
The Internet is alternatively referred to as “the net” a
worldwide system of computer networks.
It offers mass of information since millions of
computers are linked within a huge network.
Additionally, this is also called the Superhighway
since Information can travel back and forth to all
computers that are connected to the Internet.
What is Internet?
History of the Internet

Study the short history timeline of the


Internet with some of its important
milestones.
1969
First ever instant message over
ARPANET (Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network) from
computer science Professor
Leonard Kleinrock’s Laboratory
was sent to the University of Los-
Angeles California(UCLA) to the
second node network at Stanford UCLA's Boelter Hall, 1969
University(SRI)
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1974
The word “Internet” First appeared in
print in the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency(DARPA) published
requests for comments on the
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet
(TCP/IP) document. TCP/IP is a new set
of communications and networking
protocols for managing data
transmissions on the system. Nowadays,
it remains integral to the Internet
1983
The Domain Name System (DNS) was
invented wherein site names became easy-
to-remember with names endings
as .gov, .edu or .net.
1985
The National Science Foundation (NSF)
funded the construction of ARPANET’S
biggest upgrade: THE NSFNET, a
command hub of five supercomputers that
served as highways for all data traffic
1990
Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML, a text browser and
graphical user interface (GUI) browser.

He also established the first successful communication


between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP) client and a
server via the Internet.

These successful inventions make up the web pages as we


know them today. Lee also came up with the term “World
Wide Web”
1991
NSF initially allowed commercial industry to use the Internet
1994
A new world of e-commerce was born through Amazon by Jeff
Bezos

Now
Then
1995
The National Science Foundation ceased funding the
Internet and leaving it completely self-sustaining
industry.

Sun Microsystems first released the most popular


Internet programming language today which is
java.
Now
1998
Google opened its first office

Now
2004-2005
The social media revolution began when Facebook was
launched in December 2004, followed by YouTube which
debuted the following year.

Now
2006
“Cloud computing” was introduced by Google CEO Eric
Schmidt. “The Cloud” became another synonym for the
Internet soon thereafter.

Now
2007
The Internet is on the go through wireless connections.
Mobile and smartphone technologies went commercial and
grew rapidly.

Present: “The Internet will become ‘like electricity’-less


visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good
and ill.’’ – Janna Anderson and Lee Rainee
WriteActivity 1.1: that
the words
come to your mind
when you hear the
word “Internet” Place
your answer in each
circle

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