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Technology  that  lead  to  Success  of  Internet

Concept of technology in Internet that lead to success of Internet. In 1972, e-mail was invented by Ray Tomy Linson as a first application of internet. ' @ ' sign was introduced to symbolized e-mail address.
Since then it have been most popular and inexpensive network application up to date that is responsible for the bulk of traffic on internet.
E-mail has played a pivot role in the development of internet protocol, technical standards and internet engineering. It has changed  the way to communicate even with remote peers.

File Transfer Protocol ( FTP )
It is an another important application of internet apart from Telnet.
Telnet is an application of creating a virtual terminal on a remote machine using telnet you can access the host computer irrespective of your location.
FTP has been used to exchange files among remote locations. Inspite of evolution of internet it is still a very important application as it is used to transfer file to the web servers. It is the part of TCP/IP  that allows user to transfer file from server to client and vice - versa.

Three path breaking Development that place key role in shaping internet of today.
 
1.Development of Wide Area  Information Server (WAIS):
    It was invented by Brewster  Kahle, released by thinking machine of cooperation. It was a distributed information system that allows simple natural language input , index searching and relevance feedback.

2.Development of Gopher :
   It was invented by Paul Lindner and Marc Mcchill. It is again a distributed information system that presents information to the user in the hierarchical menus. The cooperation between the many Gophers over the internet allows user to search information on different host computer using the same interface. 

3.World Wide Web :
   It was developed by Tim Berners Lee. The server were interconnected in the form of web that created a network spread across the  globe called WWW. It introduced the concept of web servers. Each distinct file that could be downloaded or uploaded on the web server was called the webpage and a set of related webpage formed a Website.

Comments

kriti said…
very useful information..:)
sohail said…
@Sumun doing an excellent job by doing as said above project which vl be very usefull for ahead.......Just wanna say thumps up n go frwd with this....all d best
Garima Sood said…
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Deepika said…
Nice content to learn about Internet.
Deepika said…
Nice INPUT
neha said…
Good Work Suman