1	Wireless Internet By: Higgens Estime’ Stvillain@aol.com MIS 1:00PM
2	What is Wireless Internet? The general term comprising WAP and other wireless Internet access technologies. Also know as Wireless Web For example, prior to the WAP protocol being adopted as the standard for wireless web access, Phone.com had developed its own wireless browser and markup language technology called "HDML". Also, some cellular providers offer wireless web access from a user's laptop or notebook computer through a special modem that works either standalone or that connects to a cell phone.
3	Life Before The Web Before the Web and the graphics-based Web browser, the Internet was accessed from Unix terminals by academicians and scientists using command-driven Unix utilities. These utilities are still used; however, today, they reside in Windows, Mac and Linux machines as well. For example, an FTP program allows files to be uploaded and downloaded, and the Archie utility provides listings of these files. Telnet is a terminal emulation program that lets you log onto a computer on the Internet and run a program. Gopher provides hierarchical menus describing.
4	The Original Internet The Internet started in 1969 as the ARPAnet. Funded by the U.S. government, the ARPAnet became a series of high-speed links between major supercomputer sites and educational and research institutions worldwide, although mostly in the U.S. A major part of its backbone was the National Science Foundation's NFSNet. Along the way, it became known as the "Internet" or simply "the Net." By the 1990s, so many networks had become part of it and so much traffic was not educational or pure research that it became obvious that the Internet was on its way to becoming a commercial venture.
5	The Beginning The Internet's surge in growth in the mid 1990s was dramatic, increasing a hundredfold in 1995 and 1996 alone. There were two reasons. Up until then, the major online services (AOL, CompuServe, etc.) provided e-mail, but only to customers of the same service. As they began to connect to the Internet for e-mail exchange, the Internet took on the role of a global switching center. An AOL member could finally send mail to a CompuServe member, and so on. The Internet glued the world together for electronic mail, and today, SMTP, the Internet mail protocol, is the global e-mail standard.
6	The Explosion With the advent of graphics-based Web browsers such as Mosaic and Netscape Navigator, and soon after, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the World Wide Web took off. The Web became easily available to users with PCs and Macs rather than only scientists and hackers at Unix workstations. Delphi was the first proprietary online service to offer Web access, and all the rest followed. At the same time, new Internet service providers (ISPs) rose out of the woodwork to offer access to individuals and companies. As a result, the Web grew exponentially, providing an information exchange of unprecedented proportion. The Web has also become "the" storehouse for drivers, updates and demos that are downloaded via the browser as well as a global transport for delivering information by subscription, both free and paid.
7	WAP Technology The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) is the leading global open standard for applications over wireless networks. WAP provides a uniform technology platform with consistent content formats for delivering Internet and Intranet based information and services to digital mobile phones and other wireless devices. (see devices below for more information) The purpose of WAP is to enable easy, fast delivery of relevant information and services to mobile users. The WAP Forum is the Industry Association comprising over 500 members that has developed the defector world standard. The forum's official definition of WAP is: "The defector worldwide standard for providing internet communications and advanced telephony services on digital mobile phones. pagers. personal digital assistants and other wireless terminals."
8	"A WAP GatewayThis diagram depicts..." A WAP GatewayThis diagram depicts Openwave's Mobile Access Gateway which encodes and decodes WAP pages between the microbrowser in the smart phone and the Web server.
9	The Next Internet… Internet2 Internet2 is a consortium being led by 207 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today´s Internet in its infancy. The primary goals of Internet2 are to: 1) Create a leading edge network capability for the national research community 2) Enable revolutionary Internet applications 3) Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader Internet community.
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11	Resources http://www.webreference.com/internet/history.html http://www.arches.uga.edu/~marc02/TheFuture.html http://pradeepkumar.20m.com/future.htm http://www.sys-con.com/wireless/article.cfm?id=158