Chapter 1

   After reading the first chapter of Discovering the Internet it showed me that there is so much more to the internet then what i learned. I have had some knowledge with web design and networking from my high school classes that i had taken but many terms were common to me. What i found interesting though was how many different kinds of internet connections are out there such as the WIFI, LAN, DSN and much more. The pricing behind these were not cheap but if you think about it the internet has exploded just about every type of electronic device uses the internet. Such as your cell phone, ipod, laptops, and etc. but my point is in the chapter they said how the internet is so important, its because people us it to communicate with friends, pay bills, buy stuff, look up information there is so many different advantages out there other than the internet but we continue to use it because it give us information in about a second of our time. The history behind the internet was started with ARPANET which was used by the government and lead to internet usage worldwide. I found this to be interesting because i had always wondered how the internet had become so popular in todays time. Finally what i found to be confusing from the reading was there were some abbreviation's i had to look up that i didn't know the meanings of like FTP which is File Transfer Protocol and TCP but from learning these it helped me better understanding. And from this chapter i learned a lot about how internet started, evolved, and where it has gotten today.

The image above represented the ARPANET- Which stands for Advanced Research Project Agency. The ARPA was the first internet started by Charles M. Herzfeld. The internet has grown very large and we all seem to be using it today.
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