Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Message Transfer Agent, Procrastination, Tim Berners-Lee

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

Document Summary

Internet: a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized. Internet protocol suite (tcp/ip) to serve billions of users worldwide. The world wide web is sotware that runs on the. The ideas behind this protocol were funded by the advanced research projects agency (arpa) of the us department of defence (dod) (around 1969). Opposite of your home telephone where you get a direct line that only you and the person you are talking to can use. Tcp/ip has no direct line at the outset of the message! If a communicaion line is broken, another line is tried. Image that i had a writen a manuscript, printed it but i had not stapled it together. I have to get it from our classroom to my publisher in toronto at bloor and yonge. Traffic on these roads while you do this. This is how a phone line work! (like when barak comes to town )