Created by, Ronald Mummaw, AVC FLUENCY WITH INFORMATION TECNOLOGY Skills, Concepts, and Capabilities

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Created by, Ronald Mummaw, AVC The Basics of Networking MAKING THE CONNECTION chapter 3

Slide 4 NETWORKED COMPUTERS CHANGE OUR LIVES > Nowhere Is Remote > People Are More Interconnected > Social Interactions Are Changing > English Is Becoming a Universal Language > Freedom of Speech and of Assembly Have Expanded

Slide 5 COMMUNICATION TYPES: SOME COMPARISONS > Synchronous vs. asynchronous > Broadcast vs. point-to-point

Slide 6 THE MEDIUM OF THE MESSAGE > The Name Game of Computer Addresses — Internet addresses, domain names, and DNS servers in networking > Following Protocol — Ethernet – TCP/IP > Far and Near: WAN and LAN > Connecting a Computer to the Internet — packets

Slide 7 THE WORLD WIDE WEB > Requesting a Web Page — Protocol — Server computer name — Page pathname > Describing a Web Page — Source is not the image we see > Hypertext

Slide 8 FILE STRUCTURE > Directory Hierarchy > Organizing the Directory