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Telecommunications cables are a type of guided transmission mediums. Cables are usually known to transmit electric energy
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Optical fiber is used as a medium for telecommunication and computer networking because it is flexible and can be bundled as cables. It is especially advantageous for long-distance communications, because light propagates through the fiber with much lower attenuation compared to electrical cables.
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network packet is a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network. A packet consists of control information and user data, which is also known as the payload
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ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet.
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Ray Tomlinson is generally credited as having sent the first email across a network, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine
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ISP history. The first ISP is widely believed to be Telenet, which was the first commercial version of ARPANET
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The first multiprotocol routers were independently created by staff researchers at MIT and Stanford
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TCP is one of the main protocols in TCP/IP networks. Whereas the IP protocol deals only with packets, TCP enables two hosts to establish a connection and exchange streams of data
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The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phonebook of the Internet
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The first domain name, was registered in 1985 and most of the first 100 domains registered were brands like Xerox.com, HP.com, ATT.com, Adobe.com, Apple.com etc.
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The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation
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Dial-up Internet required a phone-line to operate, so phone calls couldn't be made using a landline while the Internet was in use.
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The first version of HTML was written by Tim Berners-Lee in 1993. Since then, there have been many different versions of HTML. The most widely used version throughout the 2000's was HTML 4.01, which became an official standard in December 1999.
