CISW 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Internet Engineering Task Force, Darpa, Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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Chapter 1: introduction to the internet & world wide. Internet began as a network to connect computers at research facilities & universities: messages travel by multiple routes, allowed network to function even if parts were broken, this network was developed by the advanced research projects agency (arpa)- 1991: lifting of the restriction on commercial use of internet, businesses now welcome on internet. 1993: mosaic, first graphical browser: marc andreessen & graduate students at the national center for supercomputer. Applications (ncsa) at the university of illinois-uc developed it. Internet engineering task force (ietf: open international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of internet architecture and smooth operation of the internet.