Researchers at four United States campuses created the first hosts of the ARPANET in 1969 connecting Stanford Research Institute, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and University of Utah. ... In 1971, the ARPANET grew to 23 hosts connecting universities and government research centers around the country. ... On November 1, 1988, a malicious program called the "Internet Worm" temporarily disabled many Internet host. ... The number of computer host approached 10 million at that time. ... The beginning of the address tells the Internet routers what network you are part of and the right end of the addres...

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Saving your work in a HTML extension enables your computer to recognize your Web page as an internet document and will load it through a web browser such as Internet Explorer. ... Now that we have saved all our work it is still on your hard drive and only accessible from your computer and nobody else can view it. ... If you are cheap and don't want to pay for web hosting there are plenty of free web hosts on the internet that will host your Web page on their server. 1. ... Though most free web hosts place advertisements there are still a few that will host your Web page without th...

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As a side note, Ray Tomlinson is the person who established the @ sign as a domain/host designator from his Model 33 Teletype. ... The theory was tested on Xerox PARCs computers. 1974 saw the launch of TELNET public packet data service. ... In 1984, the number of hosts on the Internet broke 1000, and DNS (Domain Name Services) was introduced. ... By 1989 the number of Internet hosts had capped 100,000, and the first commercial Internet mail service was created by MCI. ... By 1992 the number of hosts on the Internet had exceeded 1,000,000 and the first MBONE audio multicast was made. ...

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To communicate among host computers on the same network a protocol titled NCP (Network Control Protocol) was used. ... The number of hosts went from one thousand to one hundred thousand. ... The first commercial Internet dial-up access (world.std.com) was developed. 1992 brought us ISOC (Internet Society) and hosts now reached more than one million. ... At the end of 2002, more than thirty five million hosts exist. ... Telnet is most often used to connect from a home computer to a school's computer or home and office. ...

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The Internet is a vast collection of computers that are interconnected through Internet Service Providers (ISP's) and are catalogued by DNS servers. ... All content is stored on other computers and requested as needed, so "surfing" the "net does not take a lot of storage space. ... They not only provide web mail to hundreds of thousands of people, but also free web hosting. ...

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Qube2 is hosted in the LCP web server, the information within is uploaded by the lecturers or tutors, and deliver to the students through the World Wide Web. ... Last but not least, it paved the way for the future of better human-computer relations. ...

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He attests that this new technology, the Internet, "has allowed Salon magazine to appear on tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of people's computer screens every morning." ... Once a candidate becomes known on the political stage, it is considerably easier and cheaper, to solicit donations over the Internet rather than hosting expensive fundraisers. ... If a person has a spouse and four children at home, they may never have the opportunity to use the computer. However, an AOL online survey asked workers what the #1 reason for using their office computers were, and 75% said to g...

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A home user could play free online games on a site hosted by a company that wishes to advertise it's product on that site.) ... Advantages of FTP: q FTP can be used in order to access specific files which you often use without using the same computer or a storage device. ... To view and post messages to a newsgroup, you need software called a news reader, a program that runs on your computer and connects you to a news server on the Internet. ...

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