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Unit 5 Network Systems 5.1 Internet Basics 5.2?Local and Wide Area Networks 5.3?Client-Server Framework 5.4?Communications 5.5?Internet Architecture 5.1 Internet Basics What’s Internet? Internet is a collection of local, regional, national and international computer networks that are linked together to exchange data and distribute processing tasks. Internet History (1) The Internet began as a Cold War project to create a communications network that was immune to a nuclear attack. In 1969, the U.S. government created ARPANET(阿帕网), connecting four western universities and allowing researchers to use the mainframes of any of the networked ARPANET was a project of the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the federal governments Department of Defense (美国国防部高级研究计划局). Internet History (2) There were 23 Internet sites in 1971, 111 in 1977, and up to almost 4 million in 1994. In 1984 ARAPnet - divided into MILNET and ARPANET. MILNET the military and ARPANET the advanced research component In 1986, another U.S. government agency, the National Science Foundation (NSF), set up a network of five supercomputer centers called NSFnet. In 1990 ARPAnet ceases to exist. The network is now officially referred to as the INTERNET. In1997, the Internet has 19.5 MILLION HOSTS; 1 Million WWW sites; 71,618 Newsgroups. Internet Growth The size of the Internet based on Number of people using it. Number of computers connected Quantity of data flowing. Internet host: A computer on the Internet that provides services data routing e-mail Web pages Today there are millions of host computers available. There are around 200 million Internet users. Internet traffic: Number of bytes transmitted from one host to another computer. Internet traffic What’s Available in the Internet? E-mail 电子邮件服务 World Wide Web (WWW) 万维网 BBS 电子公告板系统 Telnet 远程登录服务 FTP 文件传送服务 E-commerce 电子商务 Internet Telephony 网络电话 Blogs 博客？Web BLOG Internet Technology The Internet makes the Web possible It is the infrastructu