CIS 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Darpa, Robert Cailliau

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

Document Summary

Advanced research projects agency network (arpanet: the fathers of the internet are vincent cerf and robert khan. The web vs. the internet: world wide web (or www or web): what we use most, not interchangable with internet. The web is a subset of the internet which broadcasts html pages. Two distinctions between web and internet: 1) web uses common communications protocols that enable computers to communicate in compatible formats, 2) web uses special links that allow users to navigate from one place to another. Tim berners-lee created the first web browser in conjunction with robert cailliau: web browser: software that lets you display and interact with text and other media on the web. A device connected to the internet is either a client or a server: client: a computer that asks for data. Server: a computer that received the request and returns the data to the client.