01:198:110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Arpanet, Hypertext, Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: 01:198:110
• Professor: Alan Belowich

Document Summary

Networking infrastructure that spans the globe and connects billions of computers. Any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as connected to internet. Info that travels over the internet does so using protocols. Information-sharing model built on top of the internet. It uses the http (hypertext transfer) protocol to transmit data. Browsers, such as chrome, internets explorer, etc, are used to access web documents. User determined and non-sequential design, using hyperlinks. 4 computer with internets\ - university of ca, santa barbara ucla, stanford. Research center, university of utah by: academic institutions, s mainl. Internet used for research and communications mainly by: Mid 1990s government decided to privatize the internet. Control of network"s hardware was turned over to telecommunications companies and research organizations. Today, most of the physical components that make up the internet are owned and maintained by commercial forms. There are organizations that oversee and standardize what happens on the.