Ron Porter - Articles

Internet History: Beyond Arpanet

The Internet’s beginnings took place in a United States Department of Defense program for a strategic computer network. It was designed to carry sensitive and critical data over a computer network that was supposed to be able to remain intact in the event of nuclear attack. The project was called ARPANET, for “Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Read

By: Ron Porter | 15/02/2008 | Computers

E-mail 101

E-mail, or electronic mail, was one of the first social mediums available to visitors in cyber space. Developed by Ray Tomlinson in 1971, e-mail originally allowed users to only post mail messages to individual accounts across a single network. Read

By: Ron Porter | 07/02/2008 | Internet

Freshen Up your Links

It may be impossible to over-emphasize the importance of links to the fiscal health of any web-based business or Internet marketing strategy. Links are like the capillaries connecting a website to the Internet, carrying the life-blood of e-commerce. Read

By: Ron Porter | 30/01/2008 | Computers

Turn Marketing Upside Down – Online

The Internet turns traditional marketing on its head. If you think in terms of physical business vs. virtual business, you get a far bigger bang for your buck on the Internet. But it's not just vendors who are obtaining sales on the Internet. Read

By: Ron Porter | 19/01/2008 | Information Technology

Optimize your Search-engine Traffic

I can’t remember the last time I surfed the net, keyed in a specific search term, and got only one page of results. Now I get dozens of pages and hundreds, even thousands of hits. Ok, so what am I supposed to do with all these hits? One of the reasons I shop on line is to save time. Read

By: Ron Porter | 09/01/2008 | Information Technology