| A | B |
|---|
| Hard Drive | Stores information in digital format for long term storage; information is stored in 1s and 0s (Binary) |
| Network Interface Card (NIC) | the piece of hardware that your computer uses to talk on an ethernet network |
| Modem | Short for Modulate/Demodulate; allows a computer which speaks in digital to speak over the phone line that speaks in analog |
| Network | A group of computers connected together by some sort of medium so they can share information |
| Local Area Network (LAN) | a group of connected computers and related hardware that are geographically close together |
| WAN | a group of connected computers and related software that are geographically dispersed and distant |
| Webserver | a computer designed to provide web pages to clients over the internet; computer is designed to be fault tolerant and configured for services as opposed to desktop work |
| 1962 | Galactic Network; JCR Licklider MIT |
| 1965 | 1st time one computer spoke to another computer |
| 1966 | work was begun on ARPANET (precessor to the internet) by the dept. of defense |
| 1969 | 1st ARPANET message from CA to MIT; Internet consisted of 4 computers (UCSB, Univ. Utah, MIT, Stanford) |
| 1972 | Email invented |
| 1980 | 1st virus his ARPANET |
| Mid 80's | Many federal agencies using internet because of email |
| 1988 | 1st internet warn took down 10% of computers on internet |
| 1995 | Term "internet" officially adopted no longer any government involvement |
