Chit Oo Tin - Internet for young people

Introduction

There are very few people who have not heard of the Internet. Because it is shown on TV every day, seen and read in magazines, and heard on the radio. It is also on everyone's lips. Therefore, almost everyone wants to hear about the Internet, understand it in depth, and analyze it.

But while the Internet appears to be a global network, it is actually a network of many smaller networks that connect thousands of individual computers. These smaller networks connect computers used by government agencies, small companies, large corporations, schools, public libraries, universities, and non-profit organizations.

This book will introduce you to the Internet and give you a simple, easy-to-understand understanding of how it works and what you can do on it.

In the late 1960s, the United States Department of Defense began developing a computer network that would be invulnerable to bombing. The network was called the Advanced Research Projects Agency network, or ARPAnet for short.

If the military were to build a network of machines connected to a powerful central computer, a bomb dropped on that main computer could cause major damage to the entire network. The Ministry of Defense needed to build a computer network that could easily communicate with each other even if the remaining computers failed due to a small number of computers.

At that time, most computers were operating independently, and there was no software that could connect computers to each other. So computer programmers had to write computer instructions that would allow one computer to connect to another and work together.

The main challenge for Apernet was to design a system that would allow computers across the country to work together without the need for special programming. This would make it much more difficult to disrupt communications in a military context, because any one computer could be destroyed without completely disrupting the entire network. Apernet was originally developed by the United States IMP Development Group, a key working group for the Apernet project.

In the west, it was connected together by wire with four other locations. Through this experimental network, the world-wide network known today as the Internet gradually evolved.

The most important resource on the Internet is the people who connect to it. Students, researchers, business people, libraries, and government officials. People can connect to the Internet from a personal computer in their home, from a computer in their office or workstation, from a computer network at school, or from a computer in a private workstation at their library.

Students use the Internet to share lesson plans with schools in other countries. Researchers collaborate with each other online without having to meet face-to-face. People of all ages, races, and nationalities use the Internet to discuss and entertain themselves.

The White House has an Internet mailbox to receive information from the public. Businesses offer to sell their products through Internet marketplaces. In short, the Internet has provided a reliable way for Russians, who, even during the collapse of the Soviet Union, were unable to communicate with the outside world, to repeatedly and repeatedly exchange messages with foreign countries.

The Internet has evolved far beyond its original purpose of transmitting military information. Today, the uses of the Internet are as diverse and diverse as the types of Internet users.