MC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Arpanet

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Mass Communication
• Course: MC 101
• Professor: J.C.Abdallah

Document Summary

A diverse set of independent networks, interlinked to provide its users with the appearance of a single, uniform network . Beginnings: the internet started as a way for college researchers and the military to share data. Like radio, the internet was not thought to be used in the way we do now. Arpanet was the rst internet of computers that communicated data with each other in the late 1960"s: email was an important development in how the internet was used. Used as a vehicle for group or individual communication. The code was posted to the internet. Commercial users were allowed on the net. Graphical web browser was available (biggest: mosaic. Internet goes mobile: there are several ways the internet has changed over its history but none more than the way we use it on the go, smartphones use the internet to power its applications. !1: think of all the ways you connect to the internet without using a web browser.