Internet

Internet

 The Internet is a global network of computers that allows people to send email, view web sites, download files such as mp3 and images, chat, post messages on newsgroups and forums and much more. The Internet was created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. government in 1960's and was first known as the ARPANet. At this stage the Internet's first computers were at academic and government institutions and were mainly used for accessing files and to send emails. From 1983 onwards the Internet as we know it today started to form with the introduction of the communication protocol TCP/IP to ARPANet. Since 1983 the Internet has accommodated a lot of changes and continues to keep developing. The last two decades has seen the Internet accommodate such things as network LANs and ATM and frame switched services. The Internet continues to evolve with it becoming available on mobile phones and pagers and possibly on televisions in the future