From Wikibooks, the open-content textbooks collection

[edit] Chapter One: What's All the Fuss?

You have probably heard of the Internet before although you may have heard it called the Net or the Web, maybe even the information super-highway, what you might not know is what people do with the internet or how they use it. The Internet has been around for a long time, but it only in the last decade has it had so much exposure. The Internet has been in use since the 1960's although it wasn't designed for home users. It was designed for use by the US military to act as a means of sharing information between a number of interconnected computers over a distance. The Internet as we know it was formed in the early 1980's through the systems Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP. You may be wondering how the Internet has come to be as popular as it is and what it can be used for. The Internet is a very useful service. The creation of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1989, has allowed the internet to be used in applications other than for sharing information. These applications include emails, phone, video messaging, instant messaging etc. With the internet, you could do your shopping online, listen to the radio and even create your own website. Most Businesses create their own website to promote their services and to attract customers.