Sawyer Free Library Computer Technology Training Lab

| Bigmama Training | | WEB DESIGN Resources |

Welcome Members of

WCban.jpg
Click Here To Visit Working Capital Web Site!.

 


Internet History

During the early 1970's, it was the Defense Department working with research universities who established the first internet network called ARPAnet. The purpose of the project was to create a communications network that would survive nuclear war.

In the Late 1979 through the Mid - 1980's modest use of the Internet was by academics. Research information was passed between researchers and professors from university to university. By the late 1980's use of the Internet increased as the

National Science Foundation (NSF)
http://www.nsf.gov/home/icons/t_logo.gif
developed the backbone of high speed connections between major hubs. Many researcher centered around communications devoted to special topic areas using the CERN accelerator. This was before graphical browsers such as Netscape was developed and many communicated with the use of what is called USENET. During this period, in Europe, researchers developed standards for an HTML-based system, which became the basics for the World Wide Web (WWW).

In the early 1990's a graphical browser, Mosaic, was created by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for navigating the WWW. This graphical browsers was the catalyst for a massic migration of public and business use on the internet.

Now, by the Mid - 1990's to the present, developers incrased the race to designing the super browser. Netscape Navigator was created! Internet usage grows at 10% per month. NSF's role is increasingly being taken over by private telecommunications giants. The Internet becomes the home black box of commercial and recreational use.

Two Kids, A Garage, A Computer andYahoo

1997, Working Capital of Gloucester goes online!


 

 

 

Internet Service Providers (ISP)

Commercial Online Services:

America Online

Compuserve

 

 

 

 

 

Local Access Providers:

 

Shore.Net
http://www.shore.net

Cove Communications
http://www.cove.com

The Gloucester Internet Connection
http://www.tgic.net

Tiac.Net
http://www.tiac.net

 

 

 

 

 

Web Hosting:

 

TabNet.Net http://www.tabnet.net

 

 

 

 

 

 

Web Communites Free Hosting:

GeoCities http://www.geocities.com

Geocities Home Page - offers a community of personal Websites on the Internet within 40 themed neighborhoods.

Tripod http://www.tr ipod.com

Tripod is a leading Web community company whose projects include our popular Web site, which provides stimulating original content, top-notch personal publishing tools and community-building opportunities, and our recently-published book (featuring hundreds of Tripod members).

 


 

 

 

 

 

Domain Name Registration!

Where to check out if your business name was taken and how to register it for free.

Network Solutions
InterNIC Registration Services
http://www.internic.net

 

 

 

Net Terms to Remember:

 

URL: Universal Resource Locator
Your Internet Address

http: hypertext transfer protocol

WWW: World Wide Web

Server: domain name

.com .net. edu. .gov

.jp .uk .it: country

 

Parking your URL

Go to:

http://www.cybro.com

 

 


 

Free Email!

Where to check your Email when out of town and away from your computer. You don't have a computer? No problem, free Email accounts set up here and can be accessed through any computer (library, work, friends and your kid's computers)

HotMail
http://www.hotmail.com

Yahoo Mail
http://www.mail.yahoo.com


| Bigmama Training | | WEB DESIGN Resources |