Internet

Question 1

ARPANET

Answer 1

Advanced Research Project Agency Network
-first computer network 
-1969 first launched
The 4 supercomputer 
- University of California, Los Angeles 
- University of California,Santa Barbara
-Stanford
-University of Utah

Question 2

NSFnet

Answer 2

National Science Foundation Network
Created in 1986
Used a 56 Kbps backbone for the internet.
Commercialization began In 1992.

Question 3

CERN

Answer 3

European Center of Nuclear Research
-Developed a system to share documents in a multi-platform environment.

Three major developments

• HTTP
• HTML
• Web Browser

Question 4

Protocols

Answer 4

Set of rules or standards. In this case, these protocols let computers communicate over the internet.

HTTP
-allows Transfer of Web Pages using a browser.

FTP
-allows the transfer of file through the internet from one computer to another.

TCP/IP
-rules that computer use to communicate over the internet.

Question 5

Packets

Answer 5

Pieces of data divided up for transit.

Question 6

IP Address

Answer 6

Internet Protocol address
A unique number assigned to every computer connected to the internet.
Range: 0-255
Ex. 24.125.219.141

Question 7

Network

Answer 7

Two or more computers that are connected for the purpose of sharing resources.

Question 8

LAN

Answer 8

Local Area Network

A network of computers covering a small area.

Question 9

WAN

Answer 9

Wide Area Network

A network of computers covering a large geographical area.

Question 10

World Wide Web History

Answer 10

CERN created the World Wide Web.
Launched in 1981
Files shares across the internet using HTTP
Each pages is an .html document.
A web site is a collection of related pages

Question 11

HTML

Answer 11

The code scheme used to format text for use in developing web pages.

Question 12

WWW

Answer 12

Collection of interconnected documents, linked by hyperlinks and urls.
Available because of the internet.
Information.

Question 13

INTERNET

Answer 13

Collection of interconnected computer network.
Startes out with the Arpanet.
Hardware.

Question 14

ISP

Answer 14

A service company that provides a users with on account on a host computer to have access to the internet.