EECS 1012 Lecture 1: EECS 1012 Notes

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1012
• Professor: Michael R Jenkin

Document Summary

The internet is a worldwide set of computer networks | the www is a set of web pages. Protocol is a standard format for information flow among computers, which enables computers to understand and perceive data. Ip address (internet protocol) is a 32 bit number identifying a computer on a network (each number between 0 and 255) that enables you to address both other computers and your own. Tcp (transmission control protocol) handle and interpret data when it has arrived as a packet sent by another ip address (resolves ip address"s problems: data loss, Web servers are computers that send web pages to clients upon request, through the use of web server software (ie. apache, which lets you become able to send this kind of information) Dns (domain name systems) essentially translate ip addresses into hostnames and acts like that of a phone book http://www. coralcdn. org. nyud. net:8080/bin/bookmark/coralize. js protocol host suffix port path anchor.