Week 4

Lecture;
Lecture four, Using the WWW, World Wide Web, discussed the differences between the Net and the Web. The Web, used for accessing information which is on the Internet is what allows us to search through computers without having to know about computers and cables. Whereas the Net is a networking infrastructure - a massive network of networks.


Readings;
Reading one, A brief history on the Internet, was based on the Origins of the Internet. The birth of the Internet was first set in motion with a series of memo's written by J.C.R Licklider of MIT in 1962. His memo's, which envisioned a "Galactic Network" involved a globally interconnected set of computers through which everyone could access data and programs. Two major steps towards computer networking followed this: the faster and more effective idea of communicating using packets rather than circuits, and the aim to get the computers within the network to talk together. In late 1966 a DARPA conference saw network enthusiasts come together with similar development ideas that set computer networking into drive (namingly the 'plan for the ARPANET' paper). After development the overall structure and specifications for ARPANET were refined and in 1968, host computers were connected together in the initial ARPANET. From there the system blossomed as computers were added quickly during the following years, and protocols and software was made functional. In 1972 the ARPANET made its first public demonstration and since then has grown immensely into what is now know as the Internet.

I couldn't access reading two.