Unit 33 - The Impact of Communications Technology on Business
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, The history of the Internet.
The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Res
Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, ARPANET used packet switching to a
computers to communicate on a single network.
On October 29, 1969, ARPAnet delivered its first message: a “node-to-node” communication from one computer to ano
first computer was located in a research lab at UCLA and the second was at Stanford; each one was the size of a sma
The message—“LOGIN”—was short and simple, but it crashed the fledgling ARPA network anyway: The Stanford com
received the note’s first two letters.
The technology continued to grow in the 1970s after scientists Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed Transmission C
Protocol and Internet Protocol, or TCP/IP, a communications model that set standards for how data could be transmitte
multiple networks.
How it works
The internet is a global network that connects billions of devices using a internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) this connects
computers, tablets and smartphones to the internet where you can browse websites, communicate with people from a
world, downloads pictures, movies and video and listen to music etc. Also the internet is formed of a collection of com
networks all linked together loosely, the connections used are fiber-optic cables, these send messages through pulses
satellite links & transmissions and wireless radio connections which send information by radio waves.
How organisations uses internet.
One way that business uses internet is by selling products and services. Businesses create E-commerce websites to s
from cell phone contracts to books and CDs. Online selling eliminates the need for the business to maintain a brick-an
store and in some cases they don't have to hold an inventory. A business can also use the Internet to buy items and se
such as bulk-buying office supplies or printed materials.
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