TheInternet.pptVIP

Computer English The Internet: Technology Background The Internet provides around 400 million people around the world (and over 170 million people in the United States) with services such as e-mail, newsgroups, shopping, research, instant messaging, music, videos, and news. No one organization controls the Internet or how it functions, nor is it owned by anybody, yet it has provided the infrastructure for a transformation in commerce, scientific research, and culture. The original purpose of the Internet, when it was conceived in the late 1960s, was to link together large mainframe computer