How did the internet originate?
The internet first
started with the cold war and the fact that Russia was getting ahead
with the technology than America. The U.S president at that time ; instructed
to research into science programs ; one of these programs was in
relation to the computer science were the Advanced Research Projects Agency
(ARPA) was created. The aim of this was to build a network between four
different computers. They were running on four different operating
systems.
Who were the people
most responsible for creating it?
ARPA were responsible
for creating it.
What system immediately preceded the internet? What
was its purpose?
The internet was created as a project in 1958 by
the United States Government ARPA to network computers in order to gain
technological and potentially a military advantage over the
Soviets in the middle of the cold war.
What is an IP packet? What is it comprised of?
The IP is responsible for addressing hosts and
routing datagram's (packets) from a source host to the destination host across
one or more IP networks. For this purpose the IP defines an addressing system
that has two functions :
- identifying hosts.
- providing a logical location
service
This is accomplished by defining
standard datagram's and a standard addressing system.
What does TCP stand for?
TCP means Transmission
Control Protocol.
How does TCP deal with lost IP packets?
The TCP deals with the lost IP packets by being able to recover using
TCP.
Why do computer people like everything in letters?
They might find it easier to
remember as well as shorter to type and refer to.
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