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| high-performance network 10 Gigabit Internet2 Backbone |
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| ARPANET (Dept of Defense) |
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experimental network connecting 4 research computers |
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| Broadband connection to Internet |
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| class of computer programs on the web that are executed client-side, by the user's web browser |
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Slowest connection to the Internet, connects through phoneline |
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Digital Subscriber Service, Broadband connection to the Internet |
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| Logical name for computing system, .com, .edu |
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| IP address changes each time computer is used |
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Ask network for an IP address when you turn it on (from a pool of available addresses) |
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| Internet access provided by Verizon |
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| Formatting instructions, Hypertext Markup Language |
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| Protocol used to transfer Web pages |
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| Internet names and port numbers |
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| Companies that connect users to Internet |
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| Each computer connected to the Internet has a unique number identifying it |
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| develops and deploys advance network applications and technologies for research and higher education |
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Allows for local processing (on your machine) instead of on server |
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| Mid-Atlantic GigaPop in Philadelphia for Internet2 |
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| National Science Foundation |
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Only scientific, research and academic institutions (no commercial traffic) |
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| Individual users enter ISP through a POP |
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Internet connection via Satellite dish |
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| Allows for local processing (on your machine) instead of on server |
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| Specified manually and entered into network tables |
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| Program that grants access to Internet |
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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) |
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One entity that controls a portion of the Internet |
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