http://www.articlesnatch.com/profile/Nisha/27452 Nisha is an author at ArticleSnatch.com Article Directory. Below are the most recent articles from Nisha. For more of articles by Nisha please use the link above. http://www.articlesnatch.com/profile/Nisha/27452 http://static.articlesnatch.com/i/logo.gif en-us http://www.articlesnatch.com/profile/Nisha/27452 PHP/5.0.26 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Internet-Security-Basics-101/281715 The explosive growth of the Internet has meant that thousands of people are today experiencing the joys of being online for the first time. With growth there always comes pain. Be it your growing pains as a child or the growth and development of this part of our culture called the Internet. Firstly we need to quickly explain what the Internet is and where it came from. The Internet is the offspring of a military project called Arpanet. Arpanet was designed to provide reliable communication during global nuclear war. A vast network of interconnected computers was set up all over the world to allow the various branches of US and NATO forces to communicate with each other. Nuclear war never came (thankfully) and the world was left with a massive network of computers all connected together with nothing to do. Colleges and universities started to use these computers for sharing research internationally. From there it grew and spread outside colleges to local homes and businesses. The World Wide Web was born and its father was a guy called Tim Berners Lee. When you're connected to the Internet you're sharing a vast network with hundreds of millions of other users. **End Summary** Topics: Computer Tips]]> Computer Help]]> PC Upgrade]]> Computer Information]]> Computer Terms]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> For more Free Resources www.100computertips.com Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Internet-Security-Basics-101/281715