Part one of term paper
It would be helpful to provide a brief historical summary of the Internet before jumping into the different means of accessing "The Net". The Internet was developed primarily by Vinton Cerf, an American computer scientist, in 1973 as a part of a United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project managed by American ...

Part two of term paper
... 100 million computers will be connected to the public Internet by the year 2000. The public Internet can be accessed in several different ways: through a LAN, by a host, terminal access or gateway access. A LAN is a Local Access Network where there are a group of computers and other devices that are spread over a relatively limited area and connected by a communications link. This also allows you to communicate with any other computer on the network. If you access by a host, it is usually d ...