Josh Newsom's History 390 experience

1. Time Sharing- a system by which users at different terminals of a computer can, because of its high speed, apparently communicate with it at the same time.
2. Packet Switching- A method of data transmission in which small blocks of data are transmitted rapidly over a channel dedicated to the connection only for the duration of the packet’s transmission.
3. Batch Processing- a system by which the computer programs of a number of individual users are submitted to the computer as a single batch.
4. ARPANEt->RAND->NPL->CYCLADES led to the formation of the internet as we know it today.
5. TCP-IP Protocol- a code used to label packets of data sent across the internet, identifying both the sending and the receiving computers
6. Servers- a computer or program that supplies data or resources to other machines on a network
7. ISPs- Internet service providers
8. DARPA- the central research and development organization for the United States Department of Defense; responsible for developing new surveillance technologies since 9/11
9. NCP -> TCP- NCP became outdated by TCP on flag day in 1983.
10. IMP subnet

In week one we learned a lot about internet development and the basics on how it works. I found the two videos we watched to be very informative and taught me a lot about the internet that I really didn’t know to begin with. When researching myself on google I realized by having a pretty generic name I stayed off of most of the links to other search engines because there would generally be 3 other Joshua Newsom’s at least. That and not having a criminal history made me pretty low key. However I did find that I was on wikipedia because my great grandfather had made an entry for me and my mother on the page for the lineage for people with the last name Newsom. Other than that I found my facebook, twitter, and myspace but really nothing unexpected.

~ by jnewsom2 on January 26, 2014 .