INTRODULTION History and background of the Internet, World Wide Web, and other on-line services
No matter how old you are, you have had to have heard the terms on-line, Internet, cyberspace, the World Wide Web, America On-Line or some deviation of them. Most people, all over the world, are basically aware that these service and communication media exist, but have never gone on-line to experience them.
Today, with billions of people in the world, over 40 million people as of 1997, have access to the Internet and/or World Wide Web. The Internet was created in the 1960's by the Defense Department under the authority of President Richard Nixon as a way for the world's computers to seamlessly communicate if ever there were a nuclear holocaust. Originall