NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Vint Cerf, Internetworking
14 Apr 2016
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Unit 16: communicaions technologies, (part iii: internet history: characterisics of the internet. Studying history of internet shows us again how users shape technological systems and also allows us to explore many current and important issues of management and control such as internet privacy and cybercrime. Computers communicate with each other by using machine language standards such as. Messages are transmited through packet-switching (see below), whereby informaion (e. g. a ile) is broken up into smaller secions (digital packets) that contain a common set of headers that provide informaion about the packet"s inal desinaion and contents. Since packets are labeled with a inal desinaion address, they can be reassembled at receiving computer. While messages automaically routed, they are managed by systems" administrator who makes sure machinery is funcioning. Idea of computer networking started in 1960s and was greatly aided by work of arpa. Packet switching advancements happened within the united states department of.
