Friday, September 12, 2008

9/12 IMD I - SRC and Internet History

Continue with your SRC project.

Answer the following questions from the three videos in class:

1. How long has the internet been in existence?

2. When was radio invented?

3. When was tv invented?

4. How is radar related to the internet?

5. Who did the us government hire to research decentralizing radar communication?

6. How did they complete this task?

7. After the work with decentralizing radar station information, what university was asked to continue developing the technology?

8. What was their program called?

9. What geographic region did the radar monitor?

10. What is ARPANET

11. How many computers were attached to this network in 1969?

12. Why was ARPANET so valuable?

13. Who is Tim Berners Lee and what did he do?

13a. What problem did he want to solve?

14. Where did he work?

15. How many host computers on the internet in 1989?

16. What US representative made the internet available for public use?


History of Dig. Com.

1. When was the first email sent

2. When were the first packets sent on the ARPANET

3. When were mailing lists first introduced?

4. What is a BBS

5. What were BBS’s used for?

6. Who programmed the first BBS and when?

7. When was usenet introduced?

8. Usenet was a precursor to what technology we use today?

9. What is a MUD

10. When was the first emoticon used and what was it?

11. What is minitel and why is it related to online chat?

12. Who invented wikipedia?

13. What percentage of Americans are connected to the internet?

14. What did newscorp pay for myspace?




1. What is a I D TEN T error?

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