CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Aadhaar, Web 2.0, Dot-Decimal Notation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Computing and Information Science
• Course: CIS 1200
• Professor: John Saville

Document Summary

A client"s request for information from a server travels along transmission lines, these are called internet backbones. Everytime you connect to the internet your computer is assigned a unique identification number called an internet protocol (ip) It is a set of four numbers separated by periods and is commonly referred to as a dotted quad or dotted decimal. It is a mean by which computers connected to the internet identify each other. Each website is assigned a unique ip address, but since these numbers are not easy to remember websites are given text versions of their ip address. In other words, you can request a website by either the . com version or the four number ip address. Classified as the social web, in which the user is also the participant. 2. 0 are collectively called social media and they include blogs, wikis, podcasts, google docs, facebook and other social networking. Networking to seek potential employers, clients, business opportunities, etc.