Although I use the internet on a daily basis, I really learned quite a bit from the chapter 1 about the history of the internet. I really had no idea that the prospect of an internet/network was thought about and started as early as the 1960's. The first time i ever heard of ARPANET was when i read about it in our text and went through the introductory lesson. Most of the other content, such as internet uses, email, http, etc I am familiar with. I can already tell that I will be learning some new things about the web and internet that I have'nt previously known. I look forward to broadening my horizons in Web Technology.
Some new word/acronyms that I hadn't previously known are:
Internet backbone- the main long-distance lines and the hardware that connect computers to the Internet.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP)- a protocol that defines how HTML documents are transmitted to a browser.
Transmission Control Protocol(TCP)- provides flow control over the network and error checking for lost packets.
Internet Protocol(IP)- addresses and sends the packets.
I had never stopped to think about what the acronyms meant when coming across them in my web travels,I'm looking forward to the next section.
