JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Internet Protocol Suite, Citizen Journalism, Usenet
6 Aug 2020
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Internet a diverse set of independent networks, interlinked to provide its users with the appearance of a single, uniform network; the internet is a mass medium like no other, incorporation elements of interpersonal, group, and mass communications. Packet switching a method for breaking up long messages into small prices, or packets, and transmitting them independently across a computer network. Once the packets arrive at their destination, the receiving computer reassembles the message into its original form. Arpanet the advanced research projects agency network; the first nationwide computer network, which would become the first major component of the internet. Tcp/ip tcp stands for transmission control protocol, which controls how data are sent out on the internet; ip stands for internet protocol, which provides the address for each computer on the internet. These protocols provided common rules and translations so that incompatible computers could communicate with each other.
