Mary J. Blige - Searching
This week in class we talked about the history of the Internet and also did a Internet Infrastructure Scavenger Hunt. Here are a few of the topics
Who is Tim Berners-Lee and what was his role in development of the Internet?
Tim Berners-Lee was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators). All of those developments took place between 1989 and 1991.
What does W3C stand for? What year was the group formed? Who formed it?The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee after he left the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in October, 1994.
What year was the Web Standards Project formed? Who formed the group?founded by George Olsen, Glenn Davis, and Jeffrey Zeldman in 1998
Aside from the W3C and WaSP, list two entities that help govern the web.
Internet Activities Board (IAB) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) help govern the web.
What is DNS?The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network.
What is Abilene? The Abilene Network is an Internet2 high-performance backbone network that enables the development of advanced Internet applications and the deployment of leading-edge network services by Internet2 universities and research laboratories across the country.
What is the total number of possible addresses for IPv6?2^128 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
What are the four layers of the Layered Network Model (related to but not the OSI 7 layer model)?
Application Layer, Transport Layer, Internet Layer Network Access Layer
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