INTERNET Jillian Roxas Billy Remulla 7 C Internet
INTERNET Jillian Roxas Billy Remulla 7 C
Internet is. . A vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide.
THE HISTORY OF INTERNET It was created in U. S in 1969 by the “United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Project Agency” a. k. a ARPA. The worldwide web was created at CERN in Switzerland in the 1990’s by a British man named Tim Berners-Lee.
Today, people can pay a fee to access the internet from internet service providers. Some services of the internet cost nothing to use. Sometimes, the people who offer these free services use advertising to make money from them. The alternative name “net” came from the “Inter(net)”
DANGERS OF INTERNET Some websites may trick people into downloading viruses that can harm a computer or spyware that spies on its users( looks at what they are doing, and tells someone else) Emails can also have harmful files with them as “attachments”. In internet chat rooms, people may be preying on others or trying to stalk them.
TIMELINE OF INTERNET Sept 1969 July 1970 March 1972 1976 Nov 1983 1990 Dec Oct 2005 1994 2006 2007
1969 1 st ARPAnet node installed.
1970 Alohanet, the first packet radio that worked operational at the University of Hawaii.
March 1972 First basic email programs written by Ray Tomlinson.
1976 Apple computer founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Queen Elizabeth II sends out an email.
1983 Domain Name System(DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris and Craig Partridge.
1990 Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web.
1994 Microsoft licenses technology to create Web Browser for Windows 95.
2005 Youtube. com launches.
2006 There an estimated 92 million websites online.
2007 Apple surpasses one billion i. Tunes downloads. Search engine giant Google surpasses Microsoft as “the most valuable global brand” QUIZ
QUIZ! 1. When was the internet created? a. 1970 b. 1969 c. 1940 2. Where was the internet created? a. United States b. Canada c. Japan 3. Who created the worldwide web? a. Tim Burners-Lee b. Bill Gates c. Steve Jobs 4. Can people pay a fee to access internet? a. True b. False 5. We always have to pay to use internet services through Internet service providers. a. True b. False
6. How do free internet providers earn money? a. Collecting money from the government b. Steal money secretly from its users. c. Advertising 7. Where did the alternative name “net” come from? a. The word net access b. The word inter(net) c. It was named after someone 8. Viruses harm all these things except one. a. Spyware b. The monitor c. computers 9. How do emails transfer viruses? a. Through links b. Through letters c. through attachments 10. What is the number one problem of internet for privacy? a. You can steal personal info. b. You can annoy the person. c. People can stalk you.
ANSWER KEY 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. B A A C B B C C
SOURCES www. dictionary. com www. simple. wikipedia. org
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