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In packet switching, host computers divide each computer packet  into smaller segments called files. 

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Long ago, when one could still conceivably sit down and count the individual pages on the World Wide Web -- long before blogs, Facebook, Wikipedia and a company called Google -- there was Yahoo.

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 HTTP is the widely used set of rules for how files and other information are transferred between computers. 

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 The first set of protocols was collectively called the Network Control Protocol (NCP).

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In the mid-1990s search engines were just coming on the scene and were quite awful by today's standards.

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In the 1950s, computers were enormous devices that  had a fraction of the power and processing ability you can find in a modern PC.

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Before the Web became the most visible part of the Internet, there were no search engines in place to help people find information on the Net.

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While the telephone evolved

and became ubiquitous in the world as a way for an individual to reach out and

talk with a specific person, this type of communications usually involved

mostly two people, or a handful of people at most if you were .... a conference

call.

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The USAF wanted to

understand the best ways to create a decentralized network of communications in

order ...  their branch of the military during and after a nuclear strike.

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Many home

computers still use a fixed line that ..... their computer via an Ethernet

cable to their modem and then to their ISP (internet service provider).