.
The file is 4MB in size and will take a long time to
download over a modem).The Internet grew out of the National Science
Foundation Network. The previous link is a Quicktime
digital movie describing the early growth and development of the
NSF network. (You will need a
Quicktime plug-in to view it .
The file is 4MB in size and will take a long time to
download over a modem).
The Internet is much more than web pages. It is a conduit through which data passes, and this data can be e-mail, files transmitted through File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Interactive Relay Chat (IRC) messages, Video Conferencing image streams, as well as the familiar web pages.
The following links provide access to a variety of documents that exist on the Net that people have authored as introductions to the Internet. They are located in a variety of machines throughout the world, but because they are connected to the Internet, they are all just a mouse-click away from your viewing.