The history of Intranet dated back to the 1960s, but the program did not emerge on a wide scale for another 30 years. The United States Military was the first to use an Intranet System.
Tracing the history of intranet is tiring to that of the rest of the web. When Tim Berners-Lee and his collaborators first proposed the idea that became the World Wide Web in 1987, he wanted to create a hypertext system that would allow users to link and access information of various kinds… They had no intension of implementing any kind of sophisticated security or access control system. Berners-Lee released a program called “Worldwide Web” in 1991 and subsequently released the Mosaic Web Browser in 1993, this was the catalyst for bringing the Worldwide Web to life in October 1994. “Mosaic is the celebrated Web Browser that allows users to travel through the world of electronic information using a point-and-click interface. The Mosaic’s charming appurtenance encouraged users to load their own documents unto the net including colour photos, Sound Bites, video clips and hypertext links to other documents.
At this point-circa 1994 – 1996, the first Intranet were analogous to the intranet as a networking environment rather than the World Wide web was an information system. In 1996, Frontier Software launched their “Intranet Genie” Package, which offered a Web server, a news server and domain name. Microsoft also joined the competition with its own e-mail and web-enabled server and web server stack and lotus started to integrate the web into what becomes Lotus Domain. Much later in 2011, Microsoft also launched SharePoint – A Software for developing intranet.
Rawn Shah defined the intranet as a word used to indicate a network within the corporation.
Before now, the students in the Department of Computer Science, Weekend programme had been facing this problem of not getting adequate, effective and timely information updates regarding the activities going on in the department. This is as a result of the manual/traditional way of pasting those information on the Public Notice Board. Information like results, course allocation, lecture time tables, examination time table and news update which are meant for the Students in the Department alone are not being secured as they are pasted on then public notice board where they can be viewed and/or tampered with by anybody irrespective of what department he/she is in.
Most of the students in the Computer Science Department ND Weekend are not residing within the school and its environment, a good number of them are working in different places within and outside the State. As a result of this, they find it difficult to go through the Notice Board on time so as to get updates in the Department. Such students always fall victim of poor information dissemination and are always ignorant of the happenings in the department. This manual/traditional method of pasting information on the public notice board has led to information being passed from one student to another and so on. As this information is passed from one student to another, the reliability or originality of the information may be reduced thereby making those students who do not have access to the Notice Board on time get the wrong version of the information as it was originally pasted. The staffs in the department are not left out in this problem because the information they convey to their students at times do not get to the students the way it ought to. The information pasted on the Notice Board may be damaged by rain and/or some careless students without getting to the people it was pasted for. This affects the effective performance of the staffs generally.
The aim of this Project work is to deploy effective secured wireless intranet for the students of computer science weekend programme, ND specifically, located within the New Weekend programme building of Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri. This network will provide a complete solution to the problems the students in the specified region encounter in the area of adequate and timely information dissemination on the activities in their department. The Project develops a software that will enable students that have WIFE enabled handsets, log on to the network with their Names and Matric Numbers as Usernames and Passwords so as to get updates on the activities going on in their department.
The appropriate usage of WIFE enabled handsets with unified applications is necessary. The Project develops a wireless Intranet that will enable the specified students have quick access to the activities going on in the department. The Network covers ND Students in the Department of Computer Science, Weekend Programme. The names of the students will serve as their username while their Maric Numbers will serve as their password. This makes it impossible for students in other departments/pgrogrmmes to have access to the network. Lots of people who are interested in misusing or abusing personal information or networks by hacking will be restricted by this network.
Wireless Intranet are now ubiquitous and a large number of institutions incorporate a wireless intranet into their infrastructures. When the fully designed software is launched, the ND Students in the department of Computer Science, Weekend Programme will benefit a lot from it. The benefits will include:
At the cause of carrying out this Project work, we do not expect all thing to move on without hitches. As a result of this we expected and encouraged the following hindrances