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MC 101: Internet
Internet |
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.
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The Original Internet |
Came from the millitary
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Ted Stevens |
Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is the major airport in the United States state of Alaska located southwest of downtown Anchorage.
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Multiplexing |
Multiple data signals use the same channel without interference -break a message into smaller components
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TCP/IP |
The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the core protocols of the Internet Protocol Suite.
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Uniform Resource Locator |
In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it.
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ARPANET |
Arpanet is an electronic musician/laboratory technician, Gerald Donald.
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National Science Foundation |
The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a major part of early 1990s Internet backbone.
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ICANN |
ICANN (, eye-can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee |
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet.
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Bandwidth |
In computer networking and computer science, digital bandwidth, network bandwidth or just bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bit/s or multiples of it (kbit/s, Mbit/s etc).
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Compression |
In computer science and information theory, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than an unencoded representation would use, through use of specific encoding schemes.
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The Abacus |
The first rudimentary computer
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The Central Processing Unit |
crunch numbers
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Random-Access Memory |
Random-access memory (usually known by its acronym, RAM) is a form of computer data storage.
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Storage |
A data storage device is a device for recording (storing) information (data).
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Advanced Research Projects Agency |
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.
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CompuServe |
CompuServe, (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its acronym CIS), was the first major commercial online service in the United States.
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Tim Berners-Lee |
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989. On 25 December 1990, with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN, he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet.
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Marshall McLuhan |
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar - a professor of English literature, a literary critic, a rhetorician, and a communication theorist.
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Domain Names |
A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
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The Economics of the Net |
Emloyment patterns,revenue, and costs associated
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E-Commerce |
Electronic commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.
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Phishing |
In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.
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Controversies of the Internet |
Anything can be stated
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