Internet

Using computers connected through a network. While the Internet (the letter 'I' is great) is a common computer system, which is connected by universal and using TCP / IP as a protocol packet switching (packet switching communication protocol). The largest internet network called the Internet. How to connect the network with this method is called internetworking.

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Internet enforced by agreement bi- or multilateral commercial and technical specifications (protocol that describes the data transfer between networks). These protocols are based on discussions Internet Engineering Task Force (Internet Engineering Task Force - IETF) that is open to the public. The agency issued a document known as RFC (Request for Comments). Some of RFCs are Internet standards by the Institute of Design Centre (Internet Architecture Board - IAB). Internet protocols that are commonly used are as TCP / IP, UDP, DNS, PPP, SLIP, ICMP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, LDAP and SSL. Some of the popular services on the Internet using the protocol above, is e-mail, Usenet newsgroups, file sharing, the World Wide Web (WWW), Gopher, WAIS, finger, IRC, MUDs, and Mush. In between all this, e-mail and the World Wide Web are most often used, and more services are built upon them, such as mailing lists and blogs. Internet allows for real-time services such as web radio and webcasts that can be accessed around the world. Some of the popular Internet services are based on proprietary systems such as IRC, ICQ, AIM, CDDB, Torrent and Gnutella. A global Internet information provider comScore reported that the number of unique Internet users achieve the level of 1 billion in December 2008. According to statistics, research, Asia-Pacific has the highest number of Internet users, with 41 percent, followed by Europe (28 per cent), North America (18 percent), Latin America (7 percent) and lastly the Middle East & Africa (with 5 per cent) , China menggungguli list by country with 17.8 percent of global Internet browser. According to the list of visited websites, the Google tops the standings with 778 million unique visitors. This is followed by Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Wikipedia with its sister projects.