COMM 209 Chapter Notes - Chapter Full year: National Science Foundation Network, National Science Foundation, Darpa

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Communication
• Course: COMM 209
• Professor: Dr. Steve Rains

Document Summary

From the reading by thurlow et al. , be familiar with the following terms/ideas: technology (cid:1679) how people modify the natural world to suit their own purposes. Greek word techne meaning art or artifice or craft. Using a number of agreed formats (protocols), users are able to transfer data (or files) from one computer to the next: originally envisioned in the 1960s by the us department of. Defense as a means of securing information exchange in the event of nuclear war: web (cid:1679) a system of computer servers connected through the internet. Supports the exchange files (or webpages) formatted mostly in a simple programming language known as html (hypertext markup. Internet relay chat and instant messaging: relationship between cyberspace and the (cid:1688)real world(cid:1689) Was the network that became the basis for the internet. Based on a concept first published in 1967, arpanet was developed under the direction of the u. s. advanced research projects agency (arpa).