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1、湖南软件职业学院专业英语（论文）1 1湖南软件职业学院专业英语论文 Hunan software vocational college professional English papers THE INTERNETAbstractWhat is the Internet? Where did it come from, and how did it support the growth of the World Wide Web? What are the 专 业 名 称： 电子工程技术指 导 老 师： 林娟毕业生 姓名： 李小林毕业生 学号： 20081070220论文提交日期： 2010
2、 年 12 月湖南软件职业学院专业英语（论文）1 2Internets most important operating principles? The Internet is an interconnected network of thousands of networks and millions of computers (sometimes called host computers or just hosts) linking businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, and individuals tog
3、ether. The Internet provides around 400 million people around the world (and over 170 million people in the United States) with services such as e-mail, newsgroups, shopping, research, instant messaging, music, videos, and news. No one organization controls the Internet or how it functions, nor is i
4、t owned by anybody, yet it has provided the infrastructure for a transformation in commerce, scientific research, and culture.Wordkey: Internet operating principlesTEXTThe word Internet is derived from the word internetwork or the connecting together of two or more computer networks. The World Wide
5、Web, or Web for short, is one of the Internets most popular services, providing access to over one billion Web pages, which are documents created in a programming language called HTML and which can contain text, graphics, audio, video, and other 湖南软件职业学院专业英语（论文）1 3objects, as well as “hyperlinks” th
6、at permit a user to jump easily from one page to another. Internet Itodays Internethas evolved over the last forty years. In this sense, the Internet is not “new”; it did not happen yesterday. Although journalists and pundits talk glibly about “Internet” timesuggesting a fast-paced, nearly instant,
7、worldwide global change mechanism, in fact, it has taken forty years of hard work to arrive at todays Internet.The history of the Internet can be segmented into three phases. In the first phase, the Innovation Phase, from 1961 to 1974, the fundamental building blocks of the Internet were conceptuali
8、zed and then realized in actual hardware and software. The basic building blocks are: packet-switching hardware, client/server computing, and a communications protocol called TCP/IP (all described more fully below). The original purpose of the Internet, when it was conceived in the late 1960s, was t
9、o link together large mainframe computers on college campuses. This kind of one-to-one communication between campuses was previously only possible through the telephone system or postal mail. In the second phase, the Institutional Phase, from 1975 to 1995, large institutions such as the Department o
10、f Defense and the National Science Foundation provided funding and legitimization for 湖南软件职业学院专业英语（论文）1 4the fledging invention called the Internet. Once the concept of the Internet had been proven in several government-supported demonstration projects, the Department of Defense contributed a millio
11、n dollars to develop the concepts and demonstration projects into a robust military communications system that could withstand nuclear war. This effort created what was then called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). In 1986, the National Science Foundation assumed responsibility fo
12、r the development of a civilian Internet (then called NSFNet) and began a ten-year-long $200 million expansion program.In the third phase, the Commercialization Phase, from 19952001, government agencies encouraged private corporations to take over and expand both the Internet backbone and local serv
13、ice to ordinary citizensfamilies and individuals across America and the world who were not students on campuses. By 2000, the Internets use had expanded well beyond military installations and research universities. REFERENCES湖南软件职业学院专业英语（论文）1 5Cook,G. The Discourse of Advertising (Second edition).Ro
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