Sunday 18 March 2007

Uses of the Internet

Today the internet has evolved into a powerful world tool. Many people are using it as a substitute to many things such as replacing mail, with e-mail and supermarket shopping with e-commerce. E-mail is considered to be one of the key features of the internet, it is actually older than the internet as it started off in 1965 as a way for multiple users to communicate via a time sharing a mainframe computer.
A way to find information you want is called a search engine,the first search engine was the Archie search engine from McGill university in 1990. Over time there were more and more search engines made available and also web directories were available. The first ever full test web search engine was valled web crawler in 1994. Modern search engines are now based on relevance searches such as google (1998).
The futre of the internet is predictably huge, according to recent trends over the past few years.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good for people to know.