Part one of term paper
is a worldwide connection of thousands of computer networks. All of them speak the same language, TCP/IP, the standard protocol. allows people with access to these networks to share information and knowledge. Resources available on are chat groups, e-mail, newsgroups, file transfers, and the World Wide Web. The Internet has no centralized ...

Part two of term paper
... that connect home or college users to the backbone networks. Today, there are more than fifty-thousand networks in more than one-hundred countries worldwide. However, it all started with one network. In the early 1960's the Cold War was escalating and the United States Government was faced with a problem. How could the country communicate after a nuclear war? The Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, ARPA, had a solution. They would create a non-centralized network that linked from c ...