Review of TCP/IP, AS/400 & WWW
Internet
What is the Internet?
- The network of networks
- TCP/IP based
- A Network connecting 4,000,000 hosts
- A Network connecting 4,000,100 hosts.....etc
- Potentially the World's largest marketplace
Some interesting Internet statistics:
- USA Corporations establish a new site on the Internet every 12 minutes
- Internet Society.
- By early 1996 there were 170,000 commercial sites on the Internet worldwide
- InterNIC.
- USA Shoppers purchased 436 Million US Dollars worth of goods and services
over the world wide web in 1995 - ActivMedia.
- In 1996 81% of the top 200 UK companies viewed the Internet as a
business opportunity, with more than one-third already having an Internet site
- Barclays Bank.
- In Asia, Europe and the USA about 17.6 million people are expected to be
connected to the Internet by the end of 1996, up from 10.6 million in 1995
- Forrester Research.
- 50 years after the invention of the telephone, world residents had made a
total of 38 million phone calls. Today on the Internet, around 38 million web
page visits occur each 24 hours - SRI International.
Agenda
REV030