MC 2000 Lecture : Internet Notes
Document Summary
Internet global network of interconnected computers that communicate freely: mid-1880s: charles babbage produced designs for computer that could conduct, colossus, developed by britain to break germany"s secret codes during world algebraic computations using stored memory and punch cards. War ii, was first electronic digital computer: commercial computer explosion was ignited by ibm. Military applications: 1962: advanced research projects agency (arpa) commissioned paul baran of the. Connecting incompatible networks: bob kahn and vint cerf, envisioned a box that would serve as a translator for all the various incompatible networks, their protocol was known as 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 or the internet: term internet was coined in 1973 as an abbreviation for inter networking of networks. Tcp/ip let packets from one network be repackaged for transmission.
