The Internet was developed in the 1960s by the U.S. military, who wanted a different way to communicate. Every machine on the Internet has an address. That address is broken down into four parts, such as 167.128.5.2., which give the network address, and then the machine address. And the number of hosts is growing every day. ESD is one of these hosts through its new World Wide Web server, named Hermes.
More advanced pages can contain animation, sound, video and more.
Districts, schools and even individual students can create their own Web pages to store on Hermes. Hermes is a part of the ESD WAN, and this could pose a security problem. One inexpensive type firewall is based on a router. A router can be programmed to allow only certain types of traffic to flow through it. Router-screening is the type of firewall that ESD is leaning toward for the first phase of its Internet Firewall Policy.