BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Internet Relay Chat, Darpa, Windows Live Messenger

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Business Technology Management
• Course: BTM 200
• Professor: Samie Lee

Document Summary

Internet was developed during the cold war to establish a secure form of military communications and creating a means by which all computers could communicate. Internet evolved from advanced research projects agency network (arpanet) first communication in 1969 vinton cerf and robert kahn known as fathers of the internet. The web is only one component of the internet other components include ftp, gopher, 1989: 1993: national center for super-computing applications releases mosaic browser for use on the. Communicating through the internet: email: fast, convenient, reduces cost (postage, long-distance calls). Can download email from many accounts, several features to manage and organize emails (task, sender, priority: web-based e-mail client can look at e-mails directly from the web (yahoo, gmail) Not updated automatically, uses media technology that continuously feeds the audio and video content (easier viewing of audio and video content). If the answer to all is yes, website is a good source.