the BEGINNINGS OF THE INTERNET DATE BACK TO RESEARCH THAT WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES around the 1960s which was to build fault TOLERANT COMMUNICATION (a PROPERTY that enables a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure within some of its COMPONENTS) via computer networks. The primary network arpanet, initially served as a backbone for interconnection of local academic and military networks within the 1980s. THE LINKING OF COMMERICAL NETWORKS AS WELL AS COMPANIES BY THE EARLY 1990S MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE TRANSITION INTO MODERN INTERNET WHICH GENERATED A LARGE AMOUNT OF GROWTH AS GENERATIONS OF INSTITUTIONAL, PERSONAL AND MOBILE COMPUTERS WERE CONNECTED TO THE NETWORK.
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internet hosts:
INTERNET HOST IS A COMPUTER OR OTHER DEVICE THAT IS CONNECTED TO A COMPUTER NETWORK. AN INTERNET HOST EITHER OFFERES INTERNET RESOURCES, SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS TO USERS OR OTHER NODES (SUCH AS A CONNECTION POINT OR A REDISTRIBUTION POINT). an example of an internet host would be a domain name.
DOMAIN NAME:
a domain name (or dns) is the naming system which gives addresses to web serves and web pages. the domain name system gives every server a memorable and an easy to spell address. DOMAIN NAMES SERVE TO IDENTIFY INTERNET RESOURCES SUCH AS COMPUTERS, NETWORKS AND SERVICES THAT IS EASIER TO MEMORIZE NUMERICAL ADDRESSES WHICH ARE USED WITHIN INTERNET PROTOCOLS. INDIVIDUAL INTERNET HOST COMPUTERS USE DOMAIN NAMES AS HOST IDENTIFIERS, ALSO CALLED HOST NAMES. THE TERM HOST NAME IS ALSO USED FOR LEAF LABELS IN THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM, USUALLY WITHOUT FURTHER SUBORDINATE DOMAIN NAME SPACE.
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TIM BERNERS - LEE:
Sir timothy john berners - lee is an English computer scientist who is best known as the inventor of the world wide web. born on the 8th of june, 1966. his achievements for the invention of the world wide web is proposing for an information management system in 1989 in march and the EXECUTION of the first successful COMMUNICATION between a hypertext transfer protocol (http) client and server via the internet around the time of november of the same year.