Development of the Internet
Websites are only among the numerous elements you will encounter in this vast universe popularly known as the world wide web. Where did it all start? What is this concept of the "internet" anyway?
The "internet" is properly referred to as a "global system of interconnected computer networks" which makes use of standardized Internet Protocol Suite (commonly "TCP/IP"), in turn a huge network consisting of millions of both private and public connections from local to global scope, linked by advanced, sophisticated technologies that develop and improve practically each day.
The process of interconnecting individual and distinct computer systems into one integral system that can share data and files in real time was first developed as part of a U.S. government-funded project specifically for military agencies that needed such capacity of computer networks as early as the 1960s. Discovering this capacity of computer systems, initial steps were taken for its progressive development with the creation of a specialized agency known as the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which in turn created the IPTO, or the Information Processing Technology Office. The IPTO was mandated to conduct further relevant research on interconnecting radar systems for several specific uses, most of which were devoted to the fields of military science and technology to advance national defense matters.
Despite such sophisticated background, the commercial viability of the concept of internet technology was only discovered in the 80s, upon interconnection of the National Science Foundation Net (NSFNET) to the commercial mail system for commercial electronic mail services. A decade later, Timothy Berners-Lee, a British physicist and computer scientist, pioneered the world wide web "a computer-based network of information resources that combines text and multimedia" project. Berners-Lee developed it as a project within CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research for wide internet use by physicists, for easy communications and research. And the rest, as they say, is internets incredible history. All these developments, improvements and innovations that internet technology has undergone, all contribute to the advancement of internet technology from which a major part of the present world now benefit and without which most, as claimed, will no longer be able to "function" properly.
Wikipedia estimates the number of internet users today at 1.5 billion as of January, 2009, a very considerable percentage of the entire worlds population. The internet shines with its laurels, to be considered todays strongest form of media, with the widest coverage ever. This alone will make you realize the impact you may have if you make a website for whatever purpose you have in mind. The wide impact of having a website, more particularly a free website which can be used and enjoyed at no extra cost to web users and internet surfers worldwide.
It has oft been said that dreaming is the best thing you can do at no cost. Dreaming about such heights you can reach is free! For sure, when you surf the net, thousands of fresh, novel ideas cross your mind, all of which you are sure to work marvels when realized over the web, but you might be apprehensive because you have no idea where to start. You need not worry anymore because you can actually find millions of ideas for websiteswhere else, but on the world wide web itself.
Just try to take a look at the websites available on the web, for any and all useful purposes you can think of. You can try thinking about any topic that will interest you. Any topic under the sun that comes to mind. Then open your browser to your favorite search engine we have the most popular ones around like Google, Yahoo, AOL, LiveSearch, Ask.com and many others and type the topic in mind. If your topic consists of several words in a phrase, or just a single word but one that is very general or known to be related to so many other topics, then you can expect the search engine to yield hundreds of thousands or even millions of results. That means there are over thousands, up to millions, of websites with content or subject related to the term or phrase you entered in the search engine. The search engine thus works like a directory or a reference guide to point you to the websites that may prove useful to the topic you are searching.
This makes it a real challenge for those who want to create and maintain their own websites. How in the world can you entice millions of web users to check out your website and keep on visiting it, in order for you to maintain heavy web traffic and high web stats? Surely, the answer is not far behind. The recent developments and considerations in matters of search engine optimization provide an answer to this dilemma. With search engine optimization, popularly known as SEO, your website will have a chance to be viewed despite competition with millions of other websites focusing and tackling the same topics you present.
But, to be able to create a website that will work wonderfully to help anyone achieve his purpose in creating it, there are very important considerations to keep in mind.
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