BTM 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: E-Commerce, Spotify, Ebay
20 Oct 2016
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By united states in the midst of the cold war with the soviet union. The internet was created to: establish a secure form of military communications, create a means by which all computers (+leading universities and research org) could communicate. It helped to coordinate and plan their activities. in being located in various parts of the country = cannot be disrupted easily in the event of an attack. Funded by the u. s. government in the 1960s. Web: the means we use to access information over the internet (connecting people for instance) Internet: it is linking your computer to other computers around the world, is a way of transporting content. (connecting computers) Pros: reduced the costs of postage and long-distance calls, client-based e-mail (only accessible from a computer) Cons: not private, not encrypted, message can be misinterpreted regrouped into one, web-based e-mail (gmail) Instant messaging: communicate in real time with others. Web 2. 0: new interaction on the web with software, people, data.
