一、互联网的产生、发展 20世纪60年代末在美国出现的、用于军事科研单位之间的互联网,从90年代中期开始走向社会,短短几年内便覆盖了全球。21世纪的今天已经进入信息社会,信息社会的最主要资源是信息,互联网由于能够使信息传输、加工、存储使用非常方便因而迅速成为人们生活的重要组成部分。据美国IDC公布的研究报告,目前,全球互联网用户已达5.5亿,美国和西欧各 I. Emergence and Development of the Internet The Internet for military research institutes that emerged in the United States in the late 1960s began to move into the community from the mid-1990s and covered the whole world in just a few years. Today, the 21st century has entered the information society. The most important resource for the information society is information. The Internet has rapidly become an important part of people’s lives because of its ease of information transmission, processing and storage. According to the research report released by the United States IDC, at present, the global Internet users have reached 550 million, the United States and Western Europe