Introduction of Web Browser

Web brower is a program or software used to surf  Internet or to search information from a Web page stored in computer. Initially, Web brower only on text-oriented and not capable of displaying images. But web browsers are now not only displays pictures but also play multimedia files such as video and sound. The browser can send and receive e-mails, processing HTML language as input, and make web pages as output informative.

By using a web browser, Internet users can access a variety of information contained in the Internet with easy. Some examples of Web browsers :


1. Nescape Navigator

         

Devices to Access The Internet

1. Computer Hardware

The computer is an absolute requirement to access the computer. In general, the computer hardware needed to access the internet is almost the same as a regular computer. Specifications used computers and connections through the ISP will determine the fast or slow computer performance in accessing the internet. The computer specifications are as follows :

       a. Computer use at least 80 486 DX processor.
       b. RAM (Random Access Memory), capacity can be used about 32 MB (Megabytes).
           RAM is used to store data, images, sound, or an application program in which the
           temporary storage.
       c. Hard Drive, serves as a magnetic data storage media.
       d. VGA (Video Graphics Array) card, serves to convert the data to be displayed on
            monitor.
       e. Monitor is the output device which serves to show the working process of the computer.

History of The Internet

History of development of the Internet begins with the formation of the united states first computer network initiated by the institution named Advance Research Project Agency (ARPAnet), which at that time connect four computers each at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), University of California of Los Angeles on (UCLA), University of Birthday Charley Kline, and the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). At that time bandwidth usage is only around 50 kbps which is owned by ATT (American Telephone and Telegraph). Then in 1983, with the invention of TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) internet start the technical term. Initially, the Internet is used only for academic and military interests in the U.S. own. But along time, began in the 1990s the Internet began in widespread use among the general public.

In 1995, the World Wide Web technology or commonly called the Web that serves to replace the FTP began to be known, namely the technology to perform the data exchange process. With this technology, the internet can provide information in the form of multimedia. Currently, the Internet can even be used via mobile phones and communication devices such as cell phone or PDA (personal digital assistant) using technology WAP (wireless application protocol).

According to the website www.internet worldstats.com, until mid-2005 Internet users reached 938,710,929 human souls, or about 14.6% of the total world population in that year. 

 Source

• Wikipedia 
• Internetworldstats.com