... are connected by a computer. Horror fictions like Neromancer are exciting and breath-taking, but this has nothing to do ith the Internet of today, Cole, page 10. Still, the orlds biggest computer netork is surrounded by an aura of mystery.In contrast to controlled flo of information, hoever, the global interconnection of netorks gives millions of people direct access to information in ays the orld has never seen before. Information of every sort flos freely, across national borders and around the orld, directly from here its happening to here its needed.1.1 History of the InternetThe history of the Internet is something else than everybody ould expect. It as a planned system by the US Army. In the early 1960s, in the time of the Cold ar, the American government as faced ith the problem, ho the country as to communicate after a nuclear ar. So they created a non-centralized netork that linked city to city and military base to base. The netork orks even if some parts of it ere destroyed. In 1969 the ARPANET as created, to give civilians access to it. The users changed this high speed netork to an electronic post office -Email. Scientists and researchers used ARPANET to collaborate on projects. Eventually, people used it for leisure activities such as chatting or mailing lists - Usenet.In the 1980s, the National Science Foundation NSF started a program to establish Internet access. They created a Backbone called NSFNET to connect college campuses via regional netork , Cole, Internet, page 10. But despite of the sitching off of the NSFNET by the US government in 1995, hich as misunderstood as the breakdon of the Internet, too many host-computers existed already to keep the Internet alive. Bill Clinton said in his 1997s inauguration address Ten years ago, the Internet as a mystical province of physicists today, it is a commonplace encyclopedia for millions of schoolchildren, Clinton, 1997.cf. Cole, Internet, S.10 cf. similar PBS, HYPERLINK http.pbs.orginternet20history http.pbs.orginternet historyIn the early 1990s the Internet experienced explosive groth. Traffic on the Internet expands at a 341,634 annual groth rate, PBS, http.pbs.orginternethistory. The main reason of this groing as the creation of the orld ide eb.1.2 History of the orld ide ebThe orld ide eb as created at CERN i http.cern.ch s a physics laboratory in Geneva, Sitzerland in 1989. The orld ide eb is the fastest groing Internet resource, but it is a part of it. Its development as based on the transmission of eb pages over the Internet, called HTTP, by using the HTML technology. The is able to include text, pictures, sound, music, voice, animations and videos on its ebpages. The user can simply click on a link and than sitch to a ne page, because the - pages support hypertext. The Internet as previously black and hite, text and files. By improving the HTML-Mode technology the latest version is 3.2, the color mode as added. cf.. Gromov, http HYPERLINK https.internetvalley.comintval.html .internetvalley.comintval.htmlA eb-broser is needed to get access to the , like the Netscape Navigator or the Microsoft Explorer. The to companies, Netscape and Microsoft are fighting an epic battle for the number one position in the eb market, Cooper, page 52. Nobody knos exactly ho big the really is. Search engines try to index the hole , like the eb Archive Organization. In the graphic belo, you can compare the content of the to other data collections. The huge collection of online books at the Library of Congress i HYPERLINK httplceb.loc.gov httplceb.loc.govs is amazing.2. Internet in Students Lives THE INTERNET OFFERS THE RESEARCHER access to a vast source of information scattered at locations around the orld., Campbell, page 1. It gives you more informa- tion or orking materials than a local library can offer. You can gain access to ritten materials, but it is possible to link to video, audio, and listening resources as ell.Every student in the Kollegstufe still has problems using the English language. Firstly, students are not native English speakers and have to learn everything right from the beginning of the Gymnasium until the Kollegstufe. Secondly, students live in a non-English speaking country and cannot use the language in normal life, only in the classroom. There, they skip into an English-speaking orld and read English texts, articles, poems, short stories and novels to improve their speaking skills. On this ay, they get used to speak the foreign language.But the effort, students must make in order to do ell in the LK English is on a high level. In tests and exams they have to analyze short stories of famous authors or articles, out of Time i HYPERLINK http.time.com http.time.coms or Neseek i HYPERLINK http.neseek.com http.neseek.coms. In those articles they must find the style and form of the riting or the point of vie out of the given texts. Recognizing stylistic devices, irony or satire is even harder.Once connected to the eb , students can find needful material for the years of their English classes. The variety and diversity of the ide ranged links are amazing and unbelievable. You ill never cover everything, but surely enough for your studies. English learning students can improve their abilities in every area. Especially hen they have problems in riting, grammar or spelling, lack of vocabulary or not enough kno- ledge about English speaking countries. The Internet faces all these problems and offers everything and unlimited material to fill these gaps.The Internet holds the potential for revolutionizing the ay research is done , Camp- bell, page 2. This sentence might be true, if you take a look on the advantages of it. The Internet is available 24 hours a day and is the best stocked global library. Finding material is easier and faster than it is in a huge library. Students can share information, material and ideas via chat or email, not only in their city, but they can exchange all over the orld. The Internet comes into every students house and appears on the computer screen.3. hat do I need to get startedNearly every household has a computer these days. In the time of multimedia the PC or Mac is able to arrange presentations, calculations and ell organized texts. As easy as this, it is to get access to the Internet. Only a fe things are needed.3.1 Hardare RequirementsThe only thing you need beside your computer is a modem. A modem is the key to the vast resources. Modems can transfer datas out of the big netorks of the Internet. The transferring rate can reach 115,500 bauds ith 28.800 kps kilobytes per second. The commercial online providers AOL and CompuServe already offer this transferring rate. The cost of an Internet connection varies tremendously ith your location and the kind of connection that is appropriate to your needs.Right no, the development of ISDN offers the user an access rate of 64,000 kps to the eb. This is a very high rate and makes Internet surfing to a fantastic experien...
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