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USENET
Usenet can be defined as a network where people exchange news. It is used for several purposes by people and support groups for sharing information. Its' main purpose is to offer a network where users can post information freely, which is then distributed. This allows others to access the information easily and as quickly as possible. -
TCP/IP
TCP/IP uses the client/server model of communication in which a user or machine (a client) is provided a service (like sending a webpage) by another computer (a server) in the network. The protocol, in computer science, a set of rules or procedures for transmitting data between electronic devices, such as computers. In order for computers to exchange information, there must be a preexisting agreement as to how the information will be structured and how each side will send and receive it. -
Domain Name System (DNS)
The domain name system (DNS) is the way that internet domain names are located and translated into internet protocol (IP) addresses. The domain name system maps the name people use to locate a website to the IP address that a computer uses to locate a website. -
ARPANET
ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet. The initial purpose was to communicate with and share computer resources among mainly scientific users at connected institutions. -
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a markup language that defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. -
CERN
CERN does not only produce large amounts of data. The interesting bits of data have to be stored, analyzed, shared and published. Work of many scientists across various research facilities around the world has to be synchronized -
HTML
Short for HyperText Markup Language, HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes. -
Archie
he Archie search engine was a simple search engine that would keep an index of the file lists of all public FTP servers it could find. This way, users would be able to find publicly available files and download them. -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a network of online content that is formatted in HTML and accessed via HTTP. The term refers to all the interlinked HTML pages that can be accessed over the Internet. -
Gopher
The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet. -
Linux
Linux is the leading operating system on servers and other big iron systems such as mainframe computers, and the only OS used on TOP500 supercomputers -
c++
C++ is a high-level programming language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup at Bell Labs. C++ adds object-oriented features to its predecessor, C. C++ is one of the most popular programming language for graphical applications
