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Internet History: Beyond Arpanet
The Internet’s beginnings took place in a United States Department of Defense program for a strategic computer network. It was designed to carry sensitive and critical data over a computer network that was supposed to be able to remain intact in the event of nuclear attack. The project was called ARPANET, for “Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. The ARPANET was based on a packet-switching network. nnAny given unit of data could be divided into packets, and
February 18, 2008
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E-mail 101
E-mail, or electronic mail, was one of the first social mediums available to visitors in cyber space. Developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971, e-mail originally allowed users to only post mail messages to individual accounts across a single network. The supporting software was quickly circulated among the computer sites on ARPANET, a pre-Internet version of the World Wide Web that was used to connect a network of defense department computers. By 1972, e-mail was the most widely us
February 11, 2008
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Optimize Your Search-Engine Traffic
I can’t remember the last time I surfed the net, keyed in a specific search term, and got only one page of results. Now I get dozens of pages and hundreds, even thousands of hits. Ok, so what am I supposed to do with all these hits? One of the reasons I shop on line is to save time. And what with a gazillion sites entering the online universe every millisecond I’m gonna get beat up with all those hits! The fact is I seldom go beyond the first page and rarely dig d
January 9, 2008