Monday, September 7, 2015

What Is Internet?

There are 2 definition I had learn in class:

"The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link several billion devices worldwide."
"The Internet is a collection of computers connected to form a global networked environment."

They are both very similar. Internet connected different country within a click on the mouse but of course that country need to have access to the network. Most of us have a device that have internet excess, for example, smart phone and computer. These devices connect us to the other side of the world.

A lot of us were very curious about who was the one that created the Internet?
But then, we know that internet is too great to be create by only one person. There are servery contributors that help created the Internet we know today.

Leonard Kleinrock was the first to come out with the idea on May 31, 1961 where he published his first paper "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets". Later, in 1961 , J.C.R. Licklider became the first Director of IPTO and gave his vision of a galactic network. Thanks to the both of them, Robert Taylor create the idea of the network that later became ARPANET. Which sounds like 'appa net', which means father net. This can help us remember clearly that Arpanet was the first to be introduce to the world. I think this video below summarize the history of Internet within a few minutes. You can see from the video, internet does not belong to anyone nor created by one person. It was put together by many scientists and became a muti-purpose tool.



Are Web and Internet the same thing?

Web, short form of the World Wide Web(www), is different from the Internet. The web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the Internet. Simply mean the Web is in the Internet. How does the Web runs? If you do blogging or even created your own website, you have use this language call HTML. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was created by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990. We use HTML to create what is call pages to form our websites/webpages. Have you wonder how we can click on a word and it transfer us to another place?  All thanks to the connections each page has with each other which is call hyperlink. Every web page you see on the Internet is written using one version of HTML code or another.
Below are some basic Tag you need to create the most simple webpage. To give a webpage a prettier appearance, we can use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). We can put in this way, HTML as bones of the webpage that lay a foundation of it and CSS a skin of the webpage that gives its appearance.


How to become rich with Domain names.
( A joke? Maybe not.)

Do you guys know that you can buy Domain names? Oh wait, you properly do not know what does that mean. In short, Domain name is a unique name that identifies one or more IP addresses. Great, lets get back to the main point. HOW CAN WE GET RICH?? Easy, you can just come out with whatever words, names, therms and whatever you can type as a address. For example, maybe around 20-30 years ago, I brought a domain name call Apple, I think I will be a million or maybe billionaire now. This is because, once a domain name is under you, no one can use it unless they brought it back from you! Black and white, the domain name is yours, they cannot really sue you because you brought it before them ( First come First serve).






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