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1. What is Internet? Internet is a widely used research tool, providing society with access to global information and instant communication. 2. Internet Origins? Pentagons Advanced Research Project World Agency (ARPA) goal was to build a network that allowed scientist at different physical locations to share information and work together on military and scientific project. Wide collection of network that links millions of business, government agencies, educational institution, and individuals. 3. How does it work? A host more commonly known today as a server is any computer that provides services and connections to other computers on a network. Hosts often use high-speed communication to transfer data and message over a network. 4. How does data travel through the internet? Computer connected to the internet work together to transfer data and information around the world using servers and clients and various wired and wireless transmission media. These major carries of network traffic are known collectively as the Internet backbone. 5. Difference with WWW. The World Wide Web actually is a service of the internet while the internet was developed in the late 1900s; the WWW emerged in the early 1900s. It consists of worldwide collections of electronics documents is called a web page. Web site collects web pages and associates items. Such as documents or pictures. Web server is a computer that delivers requested web pages to the computer. 6. Internet differences? Email is the transmission of messages and files via a computer network. Instant Message notifies you when one or more people are online and then allows you to exchange message. VIoP also called Internet telephony enable users to speak to other users over the internet.