Monday, 25 February 2013

Intruduction To Internet

The global phenomenon of the internet is changed the way businesses and individuals access and use information. As both a powerful communication tool and a comprehensive data repository ,the internet has quickly become a necessity in today's business environment. Therefore, it is important to understand what the internet offers and how you can connect and how individual windows computer or your entire network to it.
The inter net's roots can be traced back to the late 1960's when the advanced research projects agency or ARPA , under the US Department of Defense designed a network to safeguard military information stored on computer all over the country . Originally called ARPANET , this network connected or natural disaster m surviving computers could continue to communicated with each other.
In 1985 , the National science foundation (NFS) funded several national supercomputer center ans enabled regional and university computer center to connect to them. The initial motivation to connect these was the availability of remote access to these supercomputer resources. This event marked the birth of  the internet as we know it today. 

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