HOW IT WORKSHOW IT BEGAN

The Internet

What’s the difference?

Internet Physical connections

World Wide Web One way of communicating information across those

connection

The Internet- Some of the pieces:

Client DNS serverIP AddressServerRouter

Router

Router

DNS server

URL

protocol://host.domain/dir1/dir2/filename.ext

MU Internet Server

How did we get to this point?

True or False?

So how did the internet get started?

DARPA, early 1960s

Arpanet, late 1960s

Computers, 1964

Arpanet to the Internet

TCP/IPGrowth of LANs

email

Personal Computers (PCs)

The early internet

GOPHER

The World Wide Web

Tim Berners Lee Hypertext Transfer Protocol

True or False?

What did Al Gore do?

“As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed

telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system.” -Vint Cerf

High Performance Computing and Communications Act, 1991