Introducing The Internet Essay, Research Paper

Introducing the Internet

Internet Traffic is the number of bytes transmitted from one Internet host computer to another

A terabyte is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes

A exabyte is a quintillion

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company that charges you a monthly fee for providing INternet access to businesses, orangizations, and individuals

Transport Control Protoco/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is a standard set of commmunicating rules used by every computer that connects to the internet

IP Address is a set of four numbers between 0 and 255 that are separated by periods

In North America an organization called InterNIC handles requests for Ip addresses and domain names

A site is a metaphor for a virtual place that exists in cyberspace

Cyberspace is a term used to define a computer-generated mental image of a computer world

To access web pages on the internet you use a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) like a domain name is a internet address

The acronym HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol

A Server is a computer and software that make data available

A Web Browser provides Internet users with all-purpose client software for accessing many types of servers

The World Wide Web was created in 1990 as an easy-to-use, graphical source of information