INTERNET
What is the Internet? A network of networks, joining may government, university and private computers together and providing an infrastructure for the use of E-mail, bulletin boards, file archives, hypertext documents, databases and other computational resources. The vast collection of computer networks which form and act as a single huge network for transport of data and messages across distances which can be anywhere from the same office to anywhere in the world. ➤The largest network of networks in the world ➤Uses TCP/IP protocols and packet switching ➤Runs on any communication substrate. From Dr.nVinton Cerf, Co-Creator of TCP/IP WHAT WAS THE “VICTORIAN INTERNET”? · Invented in the 1840s · Discuss the development and uses of the electric telegraph · The signals are sent over wires that were established over large distances · Morse Code was dots and dashes or short signals and long signals HISTORY OF INTERNET