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Please enter a valid email address. Please attempt to sign up again. Sign Up Now. An unexpected error has occurred with your sign up. Please try again later. Check here if you would like to receive subscription offers and other promotions via email from TIME group companies. Internet is a system of computer networks that are spread all over the word the world and use a number of protocol to communicate withe one another such as Transmission Control Protocol TCP and Internet Protocol IP.
Internet is still uncharted and there is no central authority controlling the content of the internet and user connectivity. Any computer with a modem a computer interface to standard telephone lines can be connected to the Internet. Following are two common types of Internet connection:.
To access the Internet through a dial-up connection you need a personal computer, a modem and an appropriate communication software like the Internet Explorer. In this mode, there is a host which services the client requests for the information. The host is called using a local or toll-free number. There are a number of dial-up connection providers is the market , so the user can decide which one to choose depending upon their needs and the services offered by he connection providers. An Internet connection using phone lines and modems does not give users a speedy access to the internet.
An Internet connection using ordinary telephone lines has a data transfer rate using a direct connection is of the order of mega characters per second. As computing advanced, peer-to-peer P2P communication was gradually delivered and enhanced. Since the s, the internet has greatly influenced and upgraded networking to global standards. Billions of internet users rely on multiple application and networking technologies, including:. Unlike online services, which are centrally controlled, by design , the Internet is decentralized.
Each Internet computer, called a host, is independent. Operators can choose which Internet services to use and which local services to make available to the global community. Remarkably, this anarchy by design works exceedingly well. There are a variety of ways to access the Internet.
Most online services offer access to some Internet services. Originally funded by the U. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in , when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. The web helped popularize the Internet among the public, and served as a crucial step in developing the vast trove of information that most of us now access on a daily basis. This grew to 5, internet hosts in , after which the number of users grew rapidly into the millions and then hundreds of millions.
The main reasons for this massive increase were the opening of what had been an academic and government network to commercial users, and its rapid spread from the US to the rest of the world. Allied factors were the huge growth of the personal computer market in the s, the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee in the early s, and the widespread adoption of broadband in the s.
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