History+of+the+Internet

Francisco Hernandez Williams Computer Apps.p3 27 February 2012

1) When the “Internet” was first developed or thought of? By who? a) Began with the development of computers in the 1950s. [|**Leonard Klein rock's,**] **J.C.R. Likelier, Robert Taylor, Elmer Shapiro, Steve Carr**, **Steve Crocker**, **Jeff Rulifson**, **Paul Baron**, **Thomas Merrill** and others. 2) What was it originally called? a) The net. 3) What was the date of the first Internet transmission? What happened? a) October 29, 1969.The message text was the word "login"; the "l" and the "o" letters were transmitted, but the system then crashed. 4) Why was the Internet developed? a) It's purpose was to enable [|university] and government engineers to research and work from any location on the network. 5) Who were the first “people” (not person) to use the Internet? a) The early Internet was used by computer experts, engineers, scientists, and librarians. 6) When was email developed? a) In late 1971. 7) What is TCP/IP used for? a) //TCP // is //used for // transmission of data from an application to the network. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">8) What did the National Science Foundation do to help the Internet? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a) Initially created to link researchers to the nation's NSF-funded supercomputing centers, through further public funding and private industry partnerships it developed into a major part of the [|Internet backbone]. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">9) Why was Archie created? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a) The Archie [|Database] was made up of the file directories from hundreds of systems. When you searched this Archie Database on the basis of a file's name, Archie could tell you which directory paths on which systems hold a copy of the file you want. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10) What happened in 1991 that made the Internet “user-friendly”? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">a) hey up-graded the internet to make it friendly and accessible so they putted it in [|computer].


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What significant event took place in 1989?
 * 2) Tim Berners-Lee and others at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, more popularly known as CERN, proposed a new protocol for information distribution.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Write out the definitions for the following vocabulary words:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What did Michael Dertouzos do for the Internet?
 * 2) persuaded Tim Berners-Lee and others to form the World Wide Web Consortium in 1994 to promote and develop standards for the Web.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Who was the first national commercial online service? When did they go online?
 * 4) Utilizing text-based interfaces and menus, these services allowed anyone with a modem and communications software to use email, chat, news, financial and stock information, bulletin boards, special interest groups (SIGs), forums and general information. The first commercial online services went live in 1979
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Approximately, when did the Internet become as we know it today?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">around 1997
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">What are some of the current trends in technology today?
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">windows internet explorer, Microsoft, dell, oracle, ibm, cisco, intel ,hp itsm.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Routers – A device that forwards data packets to parts of a computer network.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 17.FTP – File transfer protocol, a standard for the exchange of program and data files across a network.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">TCP/IP – The Internet Protocol Suite is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and other similar networks.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Email – electronic mail: (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Archie – //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Archie // is a tool for indexing FTP archives, allowing people to find specific files. It is considered to be the first Internet search engine.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> 21.Telnet – A network protocol that allows a user on one computer to log on to another computer that is part of the same network.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Client-server architecture – is the structure of a business' computer network.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Gopher – lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Spider – A [|program] that automatically fetches [|Web pages]. Spiders are used to feed pages to [|search engines]. It's called a spider because it //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">crawls // over the [|Web]. Another term for these programs is //<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">WebCrawler //.


 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">DSL – It is a high speed internet connection, that is an alternative to cable.