... huge files makes this system ideal for business purposes. Companies like IBM & COMPAQ have large databases and have thousands of users connecting to their servers each day. It is vital for these companies to keep their customers happy, with patches, fixes or printable instructions ect, so large bandwidth ... is required to cope with all the demands of the everyday customer connecting to their servers. The huge bandwidth that cable offers is the only way a forward thinking company could realistically communicate and compete in today's fast moving market. ... Probably the most famous of a...

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... . A year later, Telenet, a commercial version of ARPANET is shown. The 1980's proved to be a breakout year. The number of hosts went from one thousand to one hundred thousand. Mail exchange servers were developed and inter-continental transmissions were plentiful. The 1990's brought more change and diversity. The first commercial Internet dial-up access (world.std.com) was developed. 1992 brought us ... ) File Transfer Protocol is the easiest way for exchanging Internet files among computers. FTP uses an application protocol ( a special set of rules) to download programs and Web pages fro...

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