Class Length: One 4 hour session

Topics Covered:

• History of the Internet
• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)
• IP Addressing
• Domain Name Service (DNS)
• TCP Protocol Layering
• The Backbone
• How to hookup
• Access Speeds
• Seattle Area Internet Access Providers
• What you need to know before hooking up
• The Internet is operating systems independent
• The original Unix Utilities
  • gopher
  • archie
  • whois
  • WAIS (Wide Area Information Service)
  • netfind
  • nslookup
  • ping
  • finger
  • talk
  • who
  • mail
• Protocols
  • NNTP (network news transport protocol)
  • FTP (file transport protocol)
  • HTTP (hyper Text tranpsort protocol)
  • Telnet (remote access protocol)
  • SMTP (simple mail transport protocol)
• Summary

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