电子商务英语（第2版）全套PPT课件.pptx

电子商务英语（第2版）Electronic Commerce English(2nd Edition)王冰 胡桃 王岩 编著张筱华 主审;Realizing the Internet认识因特网;? What Is the Internet Anyway The Internet, is a proper noun. The Internet is the name of the global communications network consisting of thousands of networks typically interconnected by fiber optic cabling. This network has people, computers and information. We are talking about networks like American OnLine (AOL), Microsoft Network (MSN), etc. When you connect to one of these Internet Service Providers (ISPs), you become a part of their network, and hence a part of the Internet. Because of the size of the Internet, no single person comprehends everything down to the nuts and bolts. The information presented here is intended to provide you with a foundation of the concept of the Internet because many people still don’t understand what it is. ;The Internet was not originally so called. As a matter of fact, the Internet we know today grew out of a project by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (US DoD ARPA). The DoD wanted to create a network that could facilitate communication between the military and government. ARPA started research on the subject of computer networks by providing grants to computer science departments at some US universities and private corporations. This network project was called the ARPAnet or the ARPA network. A network is the connection of two or more computers for the purpose of communication. ;The ARPAnet had two parent networks whose joining began the ongoing evolution. ? Military (Tactical communication in the event of telephone downtime during wartime). ? Academics (Shared information between researchers). In the ARPAnet, a machine used for running user applications was referred to as a host. Hosts were connected by the subnet. A subnet carries messages from host to host, hence the subnet is the communication part of the network. We won’t get too deep into subnets here as