All of them speak the same language, TCP/IP, the standard protocol. The Internet

allows people with access to these networks to share information and knowledge.

Resources available on the Internet are chat groups, e-mail, newsgroups, file

transfers, and the World Wide Web. The Internet has no centralized authority and

it is uncensored. The Internet belongs to everyone and to no one.

The Internet is structured in a hierarchy. At the top, each country has

at least one public backbone network. Backbone networks are made of high speed

lines that connect to other backbones. There are thousands of service providers

and networks that connect home or college users to the backbone networks. Today,

there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more than one-hundred countries

worldwide. However, it all started with one network.

In the early 1960's the Cold War was escalating and the United States

Government was faced with a problem. How could the country communicate after a

nuclear war? The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA, had a

solution. They would create a non-centralized network that linked from city to

The number of people signing on-line is still increasing and the end it not in

aspect of this field that is advancing faster than any other, it is the ease

estimated that the number of computers connected to the Internet was doubling

simply wander around the World Wide Web. It's as easy as clicking a mouse. So

to a group address, and also receive messages. This could be done twenty-four

different helper applications that the Web browser associates with files of that

other web pages by hypertext links. When there is hypertext on a page, the user

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