Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Darpa, Packet Switching, Internet Backbone

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Vivi Tryphonopolous

Document Summary

What you need to know when working in the world of website development: choose a domain name, order web hosting, meet with client, create the web site. The internet backbone in the us provides many alternative pathways for data travelling from on computer to another. Group of millions of computers around the world that are connected to one another. Network: a group of interconnected computers (could be connected with wires, wirelessly, satellites) A global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized. Internet protocol suite (tcp/ip) to serve billions of users worldwide. Rules for the format and transmission of data. The ideas behind this protocol were funded by the advanced research projects agency (arpa) of the us department of defence (dod) (around 1969). Thus the internet was originally call the arpanet. The world wide web is software that runs on the internet. Internet ready cable: digital subscriber line (dsl)