Week 09 – Internet, WWW, URL, and DNS

Lesson Overview

Topic: Internet, WWW, URL, and DNS

Activities & Due Dates: HTML tag practices


Opening – The Father of the internet

  • Vint Cerf
  • Read Vint Cert’s wiki page
  • An American Internet Pioneer
  • Developed some important internet things
  • TCP/IP Protocol
  • Earned M.S. degree and Ph.D at UCLA
  • Worked at U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Content 1 – The origin of internet

•1957 – Soviet Union launched Sputnik I

• the United States was shocked

•Advanced Research Projects Agency

•Thechnological think-tank

•Space, ballistic missiles, and nuclear test monitoring

•Communication between operational base and subcontractors

•Watch what is the internet video

Content 2 – Network in the 1960s – Centralized communication network

Computer network in 1960s

What if the server is attacked

Hazard of the centralized computer model.

Decentralization of communication network

Centralized computer network model
Decentralized computer network model

Content 3 – World Wide Web

•is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs, such as https://www.example.com/), which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet – Wikipedia

World Wide Web

Content 4 – Universal Resource Locator

Universal Resource Locator

Content 5 – Domain Name System

hierarchical and decentralized naming system for computers

• associates various information with domain names

• Translate Domain names to IP Addresses

• Use [nslookup google.com] in command

Domain Name System

Content 6 – Some facts about WWW

•1994 – Hotmail starts the web-based email

•1994 – World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded

•1995 – JAVA source code was released

•1998 – Google is founded

Activity 1 – How to make a web page

•Define the two basic steps required in making a web page. 

•Create an HTML File

•Upload file to the server

•Saving to P: drive eliminates this step

Content 7 -What is HTML?

•Web documents are text files with .html extension

•These text files have HTML “tags” in them

•Each opening HTML tag has a closing HTML tag that matches it.

•<P> for begin paragraph is followed by </P> for end paragraph

•<P> goes at beginning of paragraph

•</P> goes at end of paragraph

Activity 2 -HTML Practice of Tags

•<P>Here is the paragraph about something</P><P>Here is the second paragraph</P>

Outcome

Here is the paragraph about something.

Here is the second paragraph.

Closing –Essential HTML Tags

<HTML> begins HTML document

<BODY> begins body of document

<H1>Here’s a header in big type</H1>

<P>Here’s a paragraph</P>

</BODY> ends body </HTML> ends HTML document