1. The Internet
An Overview

2. Topics What is the Internet When did the Internet start
Why did the Internet start
Some Internet applications
The World Wide Web
Search Engines
Ethics

3. What is the Internet
The Internet is a collection of computer networks that have agreed to interact with one another.
This is accomplished with the use of a standard communication protocol, TCP/IP

4. When did the Internet start
The Internet started in 1969 as a development of the ARPANET project
The TCP/IP protocol was agreed upon in 1983

5. Why did the Internet start
The Internet was to be a global network of information centers that would allow for the sharing of information

6. Some Internet applications
Allows for the sending of electronic mail
telnet
Allows one to log onto a computer system vis a network connection
ftp
Allows one to transfer files across a network

7. The main components of the WWW are browsers and servers
The World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 as a method to easily find and retrieve information on the Internet
The main components of the WWW are browsers and servers
One uses a browser to request a web page from a web server
The web server that is contacted will, if it can, find the requested page and send it to the browser requesting it

8. Search Engines
A search engine is a program that searches for information on the World Wide Web and returns links to web pages holding the requested information.
Search engines use a program to follow the links that make up the WWW and index them in a large database. The database is then searched when a request is given.
Google is currently the largest and most used search engine

9. Ethics
Privacy
Misuse
Crime