Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pierre Omidyar, Transmission Control Protocol, John Donahoe

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

Why build a website: reach potential customers, details on services/products providing testimonials. Process: choose a domain name, order web hosting, meet with the client, create website. Canadians purchased billion online, 28 hours online each month, 1/373 web pages/can household. Web searches worldwide = 5. 7 billion per day. Connecting people: john donahoe ceo of ebay. Internet: tcp = transmission control protocol developed by arpa (arpanet, works by circuit switching or packet switching. Host: a computer on the internet that provides services such as web pages, emails, web storage. Data travels from one internet host to another along best route, if links overloaded/out of service rerouted. Finding your ip address www. showmyip. com, www. whatismyip. com. Finding ip address of any website command prompt type ping and the website. Url: uniform resource locator an address of a web document on a computer: every webpage is referred to by a unique url.