Development of Internet and WWW
Echo G
In the modern society, more and more people began to use the computers. Whether from the aspects of work, life or entertainment, a great increasing number of people more rely on the computers. People use computers for work conference, using computers to net shopping, sometime people also watch some TV shows and movies on a computer. All this shows us that the computers' position become more and more high in humans lives. Computers, however, is not the only carrier on convenient people's work and live. In the aspects of convenient to people's life, the network also plays a really important role.
Network seems to be a very mystery thing, people just to use the Internet in their daily lives, but no one would be to explore what is a network, what is the meaning of the network. The Internet, namely wide area network, local area network and single machine according to a certain communication protocol make up the international computer network. The Internet is the result of two or two more computers' terminals, the client and the server through the computer information technology means to connect with each other, people can send mail to thousands of miles away friends. completing a task and play games together.
Network first appeared in the 1950s. In the 1950 s, communication researchers recognize the need to allow a regular communication between different computer users and different communication networks. This prompted the dispersed network, queuing theory and research of the packet exchange. In 1960 the ARPA net which is the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) according to the sake of the cold war established caused a big technological progress and make it become the de...
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... is becoming more and more difficult to leave the network. So that whatever the positive effects or the negative effects will affect the people's life a lot. In order to let the positive effects of internet become bigger, there need the law to limit the content on the internet.
We can predict that follow this trend, the internet and world wide web would fill into people's life, the lives would become informatization.
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World Wide Web, http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-cn/WorldWideWeb
History of the Web, http://www.webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/
Margaret Rouse (2007), What is World Wide Web, http://searchcrm.techtarget.com/definition/World-Wide-Web
History of the Internet, http://education.illinois.edu/wp/commercialism/history-of-the-internet.htm
History of the Internet, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet
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