摘要
在短短时期内,Internet从60年代末美国国防和学术界的一个专用网崛起成为我们工作和生活中具有重要意义的部分.其潜在的影响力今未来学者们探讨起国界消失,对税务体系和传统商业的绕越,以及个人摆脱政府、公司约束,从文化种族界限及物质制约下获得的解放等问题.大多数用户对Internet的体验是通过使用浏览器软件和各种应用(如 E-mail,WWW,Newsgroups,媒体插件(media plugs-ins)等)获得的.而在这个光彩的图形化多媒体世界下存在着一些结构和协议成分,它们使得Internet在如此短暂的时间内深入发展到人们日常生活的各个角落.文章概述其中某些组成部分及其特点和局限性,以及当前为解决这些局限性和增加新功能所作的开发,并概括了Internet协议.
In a very short period of time, the Internet has risen from being viewed as a peculiarity of the defence and academic community of the late sixties to become a significant component of many of our working and home lives. The possible impact of this technology has the futurists talking of the collapse of national borders, the bypass of tax systems and traditional commerce and the emancipation of the individual from the clutches of government, corporations and the boundaries of culture, gender and physical constraints. Most users' experience of the Internet is through browser software and applications such as e - mail, World Wide Web, Newsgroups and media plug - ins. Beneath this glossy, graphical, multimedia world exists the architectural and protocol components which have enabled the Internet evolution to reach into so many parts of everyday life in such a short time. The aim of this paper is to outline some of these components, their characteristics and limitations, and their ongoing development to address those limitations and add new capabilities . Even though an overview of Internet protocols is included in this paper, basic knowledge of Internet technology is assumed.
出处
《现代电信科技》
1998年第10期20-24,共5页
Modern Science & Technology of Telecommunications
