Posts Tagged ‘internet’

SEO Tips and facts few people understand!

Posted in SEO on October 4th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

SEOIt’s about building up trust
Dump the short-cuts and easy solutions which claim to make your website hugely visible; Internet visibility is also about giving time, creating your website’s popularity and building it up slowly, but concretely. Thousands of service vendors might claim to bring traffic to your website, but believe it or not, majority of them are phony!
Once you have gained credibility, sites will link to your website, as a display of that trust, and you must do everything in your hands to maintain it. This is how you enter the family of websites which the big search engines like Google trust.
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Understanding “switching”—how data gets transferred in a network

Posted in IT on August 31st, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

InternetBe it the Internet spread over millions of computers across the world, or the local area network of your workplace, networks form an integral part of the IT technology today—enabling people to exchange information not only at a convenient speed, but also in a reliable way.
But how does the data you send to your friend on the other side of the world, or to your senior in the next cabin reach where its correct destination? Have you wondered what’s really beneath that network that you called the “Internet”, and how does “communication” actually happen?

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A Layman’s Guide to how the internet works

Posted in IT on August 21st, 2010 by Ian – Comments Off

wwwDid you know the internet was only used by researchers and universities, who used it to transfer data from local hosts to remote hosts, etc? Before the 1990s, this was the scenario. But everything changed when an application called the World Wide Web came into existence, which transformed people’s lives dramatically. So what did this application do? It allowed people to view web-sites any time they wanted to! This is the most significant feature of the Web—it operates on demand! But if you are the guy who always wanted to know how this happens, read on.

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An Internet that’s 100 times faster!

Posted in IT on July 30th, 2010 by Ian – Be the first to comment

internetThe researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim that they have developed a technology that could make Internet a hundred times faster.

Speeding up the internet to that level would mean you could download, receive and send files of sizes up to many gigabytes easily and quickly. As processors become faster and faster, the next thing to bolster up its computing speed is, without any doubts, the Internet!

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