The Internet

Question 1

ARPANET (start of the hardware)

Answer 1

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
First Computer Network, 1969 – ARPANET launched, 4 supercomputers connected for military research, to share informaFon.
University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Santa Barbara • Stanford, University of Utah

Question 2

NSFnet

Answer 2

National Science FoundaFon Network

Question 3

CERN (start of the software)

Answer 3

European Center of Nuclear Research

Developed a system to share documents in a mulF-plaTorm environment.

Question 4

Protocols

Answer 4

Set of rules or standards. In this case, these protocols let computers communicate over the Internet.

Question 5

HTTP

Answer 5

(HyperText Transfer Protocol) allows transfer of Web pages using a browser.

Question 6

FTP

Answer 6

(File Transfer Protocol) Allows the transfer of file through the Internet from one computer to another.

Question 7

TCP/IP

Answer 7

(Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) Rules that computers use to communicate over the Internet.

Question 8

Packets

Answer 8

Pieces of data divided up for transit. Packets contain information about the computer that sent the data and where the data is going.

Question 9

IP Address

Answer 9

Internet Protocol (IP) address. A unique number assigned to every computer connected to the internet.

Question 10

Network

Answer 10

two or more computers that are connected for the purpose of sharing resources.

Question 11

LAN

Answer 11

Local Area Network A network of computers covering a small area.

Question 12

WAN

Answer 12

Wide Area Network A network of computers covering a large geographical area.

Question 13

HTML

Answer 13

HyperText Markup Language

Question 14

WWW (World Wide Web)

Answer 14

CollecFon of interconnected documents, linked by hyperlinks and URLs.