History This marvelous tool has quite a history that holds its roots in the cold war sce

nario. A need was realized to connect the top universities of the United States so that they can share all the research data without having too much of a time l ag. This attempt was a result of Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which was formed at the end of 1950s just after the Russians had climbed the space era with the launch of Sputnik. After the ARPA got success in 1969, it didnt take th e experts long to understand that how much potential can this interconnection to ol have. In 1971 Ray Tomlinson made a system to send electronic maill. This was a big step in the making as this opened gateways for remote computer accessing i .e. telnet. During all this time, rigorous paper work was being done in all the elite resear ch institutions. From giving every computer an address to setting out the rules, everything was getting penned down. 1973 saw the preparations for the vital TCP /IP and Ethernet services. At the end of 1970s, Usenet groups had surfaced up. B y the time the 80s had started, IBM came up with its PC based on Intel 8088 proc essor which was widely used by students and universities for it solved the purpo se of easy computing. By 1982, the Defence Agencies made the TCP/IP compulsory a nd the term internet was coined. The domain name services arrived in the year 1984 which is also the time around which various internet based marked their debut. As the internet was coming out of its incubation period which was almost two and a half decades long, the world saw the first glitch that was not at all a part of planned strategy. A worm, or a rust the computers, attacked in 1988 and disab led over 10% of the computer systems all over the world. While most of the resea rchers regarded it as an opportunity to enhance computing as it was still in its juvenile phase, quite a number of computer companies became interested in disse cting the cores of the malware which resulted to the formation Computer Emergenc y Rescue Team (CERT). Soon after the world got over with the computer worm, Worl d Wide Web came into existence. Discovered by Tim Berners-Lee, World Wide Web wa s seen as a service to connect documents in websites using hyperlinks. By the time the 90s arrived, the larvae had started coming out as more than 40mi llion computers had been sold out, an antivirus had already been launched as wel l as the graphical user interface was quite in its evolution. Archie, the first in ternet search marked beginning of a new era in internet computing. Categorizing the websites was in its most dynamic phase as commercialized email websites were getting on day by day. It was during this time that the term spam was coined whic h referred to fake emails or hoaxes. In 1992, internet browser called Mosaic came into existence. One of the very popular internet browsers, Netscape Navigator ma de its debut in 1994 which ultimately went to compete with Microsofts Internet Ex plorer. By this time the domain name registration had started to get exponential and was made commercial. In short the Internet Explosion had started to occur. The internet in simple terms is a network of the interlinked computer networking worldwide, which is accessible to the general public. These interconnected comp uters work by transmitting data through a special type of packet switching which is known as the IP or the internet protocol. Internet is such a huge network of several different interlinked networks relati ng to the business, government, academic, and even smaller domestic networks, th erefore internet is known as the network of all the other networks. These networ ks enable the internet to be used for various important functions which include the several means of communications like the file transfer, the online chat and even the sharing of the documents and web sites on the WWW, or the World Wide We b. It is always mistaken said that the internet and the World Wide Web are both the same terms, or are synonymous. Actually there is a very significant difference between the two which has to be clear to understand both the terms. The internet and World Wide Web are both the networks yet; the internet is the network of th e several different computers which are connected through the linkage of the acc essories like the copper wires, the fiber optics and even the latest wireless co

nnections. However, the World Wide Web consists of the interlinked collection of the information and documents which are taken as the resource by the general pu blic. These are then linked by the website URLs and the hyperlinks. Therefore Wo rld Wide Web is one of the services offered by the whole complicated and huge ne twork of the internet. The use of IP in the Internet is the integral part of the network, as they provi de the services of the internet, through different layers organization through t he IP data packets. There are other protocols that are the sub-classes of the IP itself, like the TCP, and the HTTP. When the computing era took a major leap in the 80s, it was all just about the o perating systems and the programming languages. People were getting gaga over th e heavy technology revolution thinking that this is the one thing that the world needed to get over the bounds of time and space, and as usual, they were wrong. It was not long after the computer revolution that a tide, a blizzard of commun ication, arrived. This technology now makes the computers look lifeless if they dont have it. Connecting the corners of the cobwebbed world even from its remotes t corner is the Internet . Internet: What is Internet? Not confining itself to any particular definition, the Internet can be defined a s the wired or wireless mode of communication through which one can receive, tra nsmit information that can be used for single or multiple operations. The Present Just like the dynamic history, the present of the internet is quite vigorous too . Wherever the electronic world has progressed, internet has been accompanying i t. In fact, major trends in electronic world are to support the latest internet demands. From large computers to ultra light laptops and now almost paper weighi ng tablets and mobiles, all inventions are credited to the internet for it has c ertainly created a databank as well as a service. The concept of hard disk drive s is almost to a departure as cloud computing is on a role. Taking internet as t he base, controlling various appliances such as television or the refrigerator i s possible now. High speed internet services are available on mobile phones whic h fit into the palm of an average human. For efficient worldwide communication, high speed information highways are being set up by various governments and priv ate information technology firms. Through video chats and conferences, the need to travel has reduced quite a lot and people from all spheres of their lives are reaping the best of the internet services.