Internet

Internet

The Internet is a worldwide system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP / IP) in the billions of users worldwide serve. It is a network of networks consisting of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global space linked by a wide range of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information and services, in particular the interconnected hypertext documents from the World Wide Web (WWW) and the supporting infrastructure for electronic mail.

Most traditional media, such as telephone and television, are transformed or redefined by the technologies of the Internet, giving rise to services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and IPTV. Newspaper Market is transformed into websites, blogging, and web feeds. The Internet has enabled and accelerated the creation of new forms of human interaction through instant messaging, internet forums and social networking sites.

The origin of the Internet to reach back to the 1960s when the United States of its military-funded research agencies to build robust, fault-tolerant and distributed computer networks. This study and a period of civil financing a new American chain by the National Science Foundation produced worldwide participation in the development of new network technologies and led to the commercialization of an international network in the mid 1990s, and resulted in the following popularisation myriad of applications in virtually every aspect of modern human life. As of 2009, an estimated quarter of the population of the Earth uses the services of the Internet.

The Internet has no centralized management in one application of the technology or policy for access and use, each component network sets its own standards. Only on reaching definitions of the two principal namespaces in the Internet, the Internet Protocol address space and the Domain Name System, directed by a maintainer organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The technical basis of the core standards and protocols (IPv4 and IPv6) is an activity of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit international organization of loosely-affiliated members that associate with everyone by contributing technical expertise.

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