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Telecommunications cable
Telecommunications were introduced in the 1830s. The purpose of these cables were to provide an exchange of communication and information. Telephones and Internet connection. -
Packets
A packet is used to transfer data over the Internet and the data sent over a network is broken up into multiple packets and then put back together when received. -
ARPANET
Arpanet's purpose was to link computers at Pentagon-Funded research institutions over telephone lines. Arpanet was also the first network to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. -
First Email
Ray Tomlinson was the first person to have sent the first email across a network with the use of "@" to separate the names of user and the user's machine in 1971. -
First internet provider
ISP is believed to be the first commercial version of the ARPANET in 1974. An ISP gives you an Internet account, email address, web space for a web page for around $20.00 a month. -
First optics cable used for communications
By the end of the 1990s about 80 percent of the globe's long-distance data traffic was transmitted through fiber optic cables. -
TCP
TCP stands for Transmission Control Protocol and the internet works by using this. TCP authorizes two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data. TCP guarantees delivery of data and packets will be delivered in the same order in which they were sent. -
DNS
A computer server that contains a database of public IP addresses and translates hostnames to IP addresses as requested. -
Registered Domains
Registered domains are used to identify Internet resources like computers, networks, and services with a text-based label that is easier to memorize. Basically this is used to identify IP addresses.
