uction of new technologies and services;2.The rapid restructuring of the telecommunications sector; and3.Globalization of economies and of communications.These things are all made possible by the computerThere are many powerful programs that the computer can utilize but perhaps the greatest one of all is the power of the INTERNET!(Transition)? How many people go online and surf the Internet? Quite a few of us no doubt. The Internet has displaced a lot of other mediums. Lets take a look at this chart and see what has been displaced the most.The Internet was started by the US Department of Defense in 1969; it was called ARPANET, which stood for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. It started as an experiment to link together DOD and military research including Universities doing military-funded research. The ARPANET was so successful that every University in the country wanted to get on it. Because so many people wanted to use the net it started getting hard to manage, therefore, it was broken into two parts: MILNET, which had all the military sites, and ARPANET, which had all the nonmilitary sites. The two networks remained connected, however, thanks to a technical scheme called Internet Protocol or IP, which enabled traffic to be routed from one net to another as needed. Internet Protocol connects all the networks so they can all exchange messages.Even though there were only two networks at the time, IP was made to allow thousands of networks. The IP is designed so that every computer on an IP network is compatible. That means any machine can communicate with any other machine.The Internet, also called the net, is the worlds largest computer network, it is the network of all networks.Use of the Internet is growing in leaps and bounds. Lets take a look at this next chart to see how many people are going online (2 charts)As you can see there are a lot of people that are going online. Perh...
