Chapter 3

CHAPTER 3
This Chapter examines the internet and World Wide Web of Today and tomorrow, how it evolved, how it works, and how the present and futures infrastructure of the Internet and the web enables new business opportunities.
3.1 THE INTERNET : TECHNOLOGY BACKROUND
The word Internet is derived from the word internetwork of the connecting together of two or more connecting together of two or more computer networks. So, internet is an interconnected network of thousands of network and millions of computers linking business, educational institutions, government agencies, and individuals together.
World Wide Web (Web) is one of the Internets most popular service, providing acces to over 6 billion Web Pages, which are documents created in aprograming language called HTML and that can contain text, graphic, audio video, and other object, as well as “hyperlinks” that permit users to jump easily from one page another.
THE EVOLUTON OF THE INTERNET 1961-2003The Invation Phase, from 1975 to 1995, large institutions such as Departement of Defense and the National Science Foundation provided funding and legitimization for the fledging invention called the internet. Once the concept of the internet had been proven in several government-supported demonstration project then called ARPANET (Advance Reserch Project Agency Network). In 1986 , the National Science Foundation assumed responsibility for the development of the civilian Internet (then called NSFNet). In the third phase, the Commercialization Phase, from 1995 on the present government agencies encouraged private corporations to take over and expand both the Internet backbone and local services to ordinary citizens-families and individuals across Amerika and the world who were not students on campuses. By 2000, the internet’s use had expanded well beyond military installations and research universities.