Why would you want to see someone’s internet history – that is, a list of the websites (and the pages within them) that they’ve recently viewed? There are a number of reasons. For example, you may want to ensure that your child is staying safe online or you may want to find a site you’ve visited but can’t remember its name. Keeping internet history can have security implications, too, as it allows anyone to see just what you’ve been looking at. However, storing your viewing history means that web pages load faster when you revisit them.
A virus called the Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers. 1989 The World (world.std.com) debuts as the first provider of dial-up Internet access for consumers. Tim Berners-Lee of CERN (European Laboratory for Particle Physics) develops a new technique for distributing information on the Internet.
Depending on your settings, you can retain a list of websites visited today or even several weeks back. A word of warning, though: the more days back you go, the more space will be taken up on your hard drive. So unless you have a good reason to store months of visited websites, you should keep no more than about a week’s worth.
Follow these step-by-step instructions to view internet history on Internet Explorer 8
Step 1: Open the browser and click Tools and then Internet Options.
Step 2: If there’s a tick in the box next to ‘Delete browsing history on exit’, no information will have been stored. Click in the box to remove the tick – this will ensure that all future web surfing is recorded. Then click Settings.
Step 3: At the bottom of the ‘Temporary Internet Files and History Settings’ window, under ‘History’, you’ll see a box with arrows pointing up and down. This is the number of days that you want the browser to save websites that have been visited. You’ll see on this example that ’20′ has been chosen. Clicking on the up or down arrow will, respectively, increase or decrease the number of days required.
Click OK on each window to return to your browser’s main page.
Step 4: Now that you’ve ensured that the websites viewed on your computer will be recorded, in a few days you can view your internet history. Click Favorites and then History.
Step 5: The panel you now see will automatically list sites by the dates on which they were visited.
If you want to change this – for instance, to see the most frequently viewed sites instead – click on the arrow in the drop-down box and select ‘View By Most Visited’.
Step 6: Websites are shown below in a list by date. To look at any of these sites, all you have to do is click on the relevant link.
If several pages within one site have been visited, these will appear under the site name. For instance, if you’ve been on the BBC home page, then on the News page and then on iPlayer, each of these pages will show as visited under the main ‘BBC’ heading.
Step 7: To close the ‘History’ panel, click Favorites again.
For newer versions of Internet Explorer follow these steps:
Step 1: Click on the favourites and internet history icon.
Step 2: This will take you to your favourites list with a new toolbar at the top. Click on the icon that looks like a clock.
Step 3: This will pull up a list of searches.
Step 4: If you scroll further down you can see an archive of all your internet searches.
Debbie Brixey is a Digital Unite tutor in south London.
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The Internet started in the 1960s as a way for government researchers to share information. Computers in the '60s were large and immobile and in order to make use of information stored in any one computer, one had to either travel to the site of the computer or have magnetic computer tapes sent through the conventional postal system.
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Another catalyst in the formation of the Internet was the heating up of the Cold War. The Soviet Union's launch of the Sputnik satellite spurred the U.S. Defense Department to consider ways information could still be disseminated even after a nuclear attack. This eventually led to the formation of the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the network that ultimately evolved into what we now know as the Internet. ARPANET was a great success but membership was limited to certain academic and research organizations who had contracts with the Defense Department. In response to this, other networks were created to provide information sharing.
January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol (TCP/IP). This allowed different kinds of computers on different networks to 'talk' to each other. ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard on January 1, 1983, hence the birth of the Internet. All networks could now be connected by a universal language.
The image above is a scale model of the UNIVAC I (the name stood for Universal Automatic Computer) which was delivered to the Census Bureau in 1951. It weighed some 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second. It was the first American commercial computer, as well as the first computer designed for business use. (Business computers like the UNIVAC processed data more slowly than the IAS-type machines, but were designed for fast input and output.) The first few sales were to government agencies, the A.C. Nielsen Company, and the Prudential Insurance Company. The first UNIVAC for business applications was installed at the General Electric Appliance Division, to do payroll, in 1954. By 1957 Remington-Rand (which had purchased the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation in 1950) had sold forty-six machines.
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