2. CONTENTS
• What is INTERNET ?
• Brief History of Internet.
• Services provided by Internet.
• Impact of Internet.
– Education.
– Health Care.
– Business
3. WHAT IS INTERNET
a global computer network providing a variety of
information and communication facilities, consisting
of interconnected networks using standardized
communication protocols.
4. Brief History of Internet
• ARPA – Advanced Research Project
Agency.
• 1969 January 2 – started an experimental
Computer Network.
• Concept – No Server, but equal
importance/participation to every
computer in the Network.
• Even if, one or two node destroyed that
will not affect the Network
5. Paul Baran
• Paul Baran developed the field of packet
switching networks while conducting
research at the historic RAND
organization
7. Brief History of Internet
• First named as ARPANET
• This is renamed as INTERNET
– TCP/IP (Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
8. Internet Growth Trends
• 1977: 111 hosts on Internet
• 1981: 213 hosts
• 1983: 562 hosts
• 1984: 1,000 hosts
• 1986: 5,000 hosts
• 1987: 10,000 hosts
• 1989: 100,000 hosts
• 1992: 1,000,000 hosts
• 2001: 150 – 175 million hosts
• 2002: over 200 million hosts
• By 2010, about 80% of the planet will be on the
Internet
10. Internet Services
• Electronic Mail (e-mail)
• World Wide Web
• Telnet
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Internet Telephone
• Web TV/Radio
• Internet Relay Chat
• News Groups
11. Electronic Mail (e-Mail)
• Distributes e-mail messages and attached
files to one or more electronic mailboxes.
• Eg:- e-mail addresses
– Krishna.nalagu@yahoo.com
– Krishnas.cnc3hb17@detedu.org
13. GMAIL
• Gmail is Google's free web-based email service.
• Where we use gmail
• Office
• School
• Bank
• Company
• Hospital
• Etc….
14. Yahoo
Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search
engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites
organized in a hierarchy of topic categories. As a
directory, it provides both new and seasoned Web users
the reassurance of a structured view of hundreds of
thousands of Web sites and millions of Web pages. It
also provides one of the best ways to search the Web for
a given topic. Since Yahoo is associated with the most
popular Web search sites, if a search argument doesn't
lead to a Yahoo topic page, it will still lead to results from
the six or seven popular search engine sites Yahoo links
to
15. Hot mail
• HotMaiL (the capital H,T,M, and L are an
homage to HTML) was a free online e-mail
service started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia
in 1995 that was later acquired by Microsoft in
December of 1997. By 2001, Hotmail had over
100 million users and had become one of the
most popular webmail services available. It
allowed users to read and send e-mail wherever
there is Internet access. The following picture
shows an example of what Hotmail looked like in
1998.
16. World Wide Web (W W W)
• Most important service provided by
Internet.
• An internet-based hypermedia initiative for
global information sharing.
• Developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee of
the European Particle Physics Lab
(CERN) in Switzerland.
17. Tim Berners-Lee
• Father of W W W.
• The inventor of HTML.
• Invented W W W while working at CERN,
the European Particle Physics Laboratory.